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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT069 : Cordia macleodii Hook. fil. & Thoms.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 310  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Boraginales
Family : Boraginaceae - Borage family
Genus : Cordia
Species : Cordia macleodii Hook. fil. & Thoms.
Plant Location in Melghat : In Dabhya, Dolar Chipi, Koktu, Belkund  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : Rare  
Plant Family : Boraginaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Dahipalas, K- Kassamar,
 
Synonym : Gerascanthus macleodii (Hook. fil. & Thoms.) A. Borhidi.
Hemigymnia macleodii (Hook. fil. & Thoms.) Griff.
Lithocardium macleodii (Hook. fil. & Thoms.) Kuntze.
Description : A polygamous tree, 6-12 m tall. Young shoots and branchlets brownish-white tomentose. Leaves 6-18 x 5-16 cm, broadly cordate-ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, margin subentire, ± undulate, nerves usually 3, impressed above, prominent on undersurface. Undersurface of a light colour, tomentose with brownish-yellow hairs. Petiole 2-3.5 cm long. Flowers laterally disposed in particulate cymes, white with yellow throat. Calyx 8 mm long, ribbed, tomentose, 6-lobed, accrescent fruit. Corolla lobes ligulate-obtuse. Filaments exserted, base hairy. Drupe up to 22 mm long, ovoid, acute, basal portion surrounded by the ± cupular calyx. Fl. Per.: March-April.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Brain tonic; wound healing, aphrodisiac and Hepatoprotective activities;
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Stigmasterol
Camphesterol
Gallic acid
Reference : ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ 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 :

~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID :