MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT068 : Cordia dichotoma Forster. f., Prodr. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 309 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Dedra Khora Koktu Vally | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Rare | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Boraginaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Chilu, Silu, bird lime tree, clammy cherry, fragrant manjack, Indian cherry, Sebesten plum, bahuar, gunda, lasora, bhokar, gondani, gondhan | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cordia brownii A.DC. Cordia griffithii C.B.Clarke Cordia indica Lam. Cordia latifolia Roxb. Cordia loureiroi Roem. & Schult. Cordia lowriana Brandis Cordia obliqua Willd. Cordia obliqua var. wallichii (G.Don) C.B.Clarke Cordia premnifolia Ridl. Cordia suaveolens Blume Cordia tomentosa Wall. [Illegitimate] Cordia tremula Griseb. Cordia wallichii G.Don Gerascanthus dichotomus (G.Forst.) Borhidi Gerascanthus griffithii (C.B.Clarke) Borhidi [Invalid] Gerascanthus suaveolens (Blume) Borhidi [Invalid] Varronia sinensis Lour. |
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| Description : | A polygamo-dioecious tree up to 15 m tall. Branchlets pubescent. Leaves 5-8 x 1.5-3.0 cm, elliptic-ovate to obovate, pubescent, especially on the under-surface, margin sometimes undulate, base cuneate to oblique or rounded. Petiole up to 3.0 cm long. Flowers in dichotomous cymes, ebracteate. Male flowers: Calyx c. 2.5 mm long, shallowly 5-lobed, hairy to the inside. Corolla campanulate, c. 6 mm long, tube about equalling the limb, dense hairy within. Lobes oblanceolate or broadly so, recurved. Filaments c. 4.5 mm, lower half hairy and adnate to tube; anthers 2.5-3 mm long; bisexual flowers: similar but larger than male flowers. Calyx 5-6 mm long, campanulate, accrescent and up to 10 mm in fruit. Filaments c. 2 mm long. Style branched. Drupe up to 15 mm broad, yellowish-red. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Cough, Skin diseases, anti-diabetic, anti-ulcer, anti-inflammatory, immune-modulator and analgesic activity. From the ancient time, leaves and stem bark are used in the treatment of dyspepsia, fever, Diarrhea, leprosy, gonorrhea and burning sensation. Leaf of plant traditionally shows the therapeutic uses and actions such as anthelmintic, astringent, diuretic, demulcent, purgative, expectorant, tonic, ulcer and cough. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | alpha-amyrins betulin octacosanol lupeol-3rhamnoside beta-sitosterol beta-sitosterol-3-glucoside hentricontanol hentricontane taxifolin-3-5-dirhamnoside hesperitin-7-rhamnoside palmitic acid stearic acid arachidic acid behenic acid oleic acid linoleic acid robinin rutin rutoside datiscoside hesperidin dihydrorobinetin chlorogenic acid caffeic acid aplha-amyrins Allointoin Apigenine Hesperidine Lupeol Robonine Carotenoid Dihydrorobenetin arabinoglucan quercetin quercitrin |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Omesh Bajpai, Jitendra Pandey and Lal Babu Chaudhary; "Ethnomedicinal Uses of Tree Species by Tharu Tribes in the Himalayan Terai Region of India"; Research Journal of Medicinal Plant (2016); 10(1): 19-41 PMID : ~ Prasad G. Jamkhande, Sonal R. Barde, Shailesh L. Patwekar and Priti S. Tidke; "Plant profile, phytochemistry and pharmacology of Cordia dichotoma (Indian cherry): A review"; Asian Pac J Trop Biomed (2013); 3(12): 1009-1012 PMID : 24093795 ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
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