MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT065 : Holarrhena antidysenterica (L.) Wall. ex A. DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 292 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Scattered throughout | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Rare, Endemic | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Apocynaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kuda, K-Kurakatto, Indrajao • Assamese: dhulkari, dudkhuri • Bengali: kurchi, kutaja • Gujarati: kadavo indrajav • Hindi: karva indrajau, kutaja • Kannada: koodsaloo, korchie • Kashmiri: andusurun • Konkani: kudo • Malayalam: kutakappaala • Marathi: indrajav, kutaja, pandhra kuda • Punjabi: keor, kewar • Oriya: kherwa, korwa, kurwa, pitakorwa • Sanskrit: indrayava, kutaja, sakraparyaaya, sakraasana, vatsaka • Tamil: kirimllikai, kutaca-p-palai, mlaimllikai • Telugu: girimallika, kodisepala, kolamukku, kondamalle, kutajamu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Holarrhena pubescens |
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| Description : | A small deciduous tree. Leaves: elliptic, oblong, ovate or ovate-oblong, nerves 10-14 pairs, strong arched. Flowers: borne in corymbose cymes, white, fragrant. Sepals acuminate. Corolla-tube slender, lobes oblong. Fruits: follicles, slender, parallel, terete, usually with long white spots. Seeds: narrowly linear-oblong, glabrous. Flowers from April-July and fruits from August-October. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Antibiotic, useful in anaemia, colic pain, Diarrhea, haematuria, menorrhagia, obstetric conditions, spermatorrhoea, splenomegaly. Seeds: decoction beneficial in chronic dysentery and in bleeding piles. Powdered seeds mixed with honey given in chronic chest affection, asthma and colic pain. Leaves: used in chronic bronchitis. Bark: useful in colitis, stomachic and tonic. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Conessidine conessimine isoconessimine sonessine conimine holadiene holarrhenine conamine conarrhimine holarrhine kurchine lettocine norconessine Linoceric acid linolenic acid linoleic acid oleic acid palmitic acid stearic acid |
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