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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT073 : Stereospermum personatum (Hassk.) Chatterjee

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 373  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Lamiales
Family : Bignoniaceae
Genus : Stereospermum
Species : Stereospermum personatum (Hassk.) Chatterjee
Plant Location in Melghat : In Koktu, Chipi, Bori, Dhargad, Boripati, Butida, Khandakheda, Semadoh  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : Rare  
Plant Family : Bignoniaceae  

 
Plant Common Name : Padar, Yellow Snake Tree, Trumpet flower tree • Hindi: paral, paroli • Manipuri: Missi • Marathi: padal • Tamil: ampu, ampuvakini, patalam, patiri, punkali • Malayalam: karingazha, paathiri, puuppaathiri • Telugu: ambuvasini, kaligottu, padiri, patala • Kannada: kalaadri, paadari • Bengali: parul • Oriya: pamphunia • Konkani: paadal • Urdu: paral • Assamese: Dhapatita, Parroli • Gujarati: padeli • Sanskrit: patala • Mizo: zinghal
 
Synonym : Stereospermum colais (Buch.-Ham. ex Dillw.) D. L. Mabberley
Bignonia caudata DC.
Bignonia caudata Miq. ex C.B.Clarke.
Bignonia colais Buch.-Ham. ex Dillwyn.
Bignonia suaveolens Roxb.
Bignonia tetragona Wall. ex DC.
Dipterosperma personatum Hassk.
Stereospermum caudatum (DC.) Miq.
Stereospermum colais var. puberula (Dop) D.D.Tao.
Stereospermum hasskarlii Zoll. & Moritzi.
Stereospermum tetragonum DC.


Description : Large deciduous trees, often buttressed, up to 25 m tall. Bark fissured, dark brown; blaze cream. Branchlets terete, glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves compound, imparipinnate, opposite, decussate, to 60 cm long; rachis 6-16.5 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; leaflets 3-5 pairs, opposite with odd terminal one; petiolule 0.8-1.5 cm long, canaliculate; lamina 5-15 x 2.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, apex caudate (acumen 1.5-4 cm long) base cuneate to asymmetric, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary nerves 8-10 pairs gradually curved; tertiary nerves weakly percurrent. Inflorescence lax terminal panicles, flowers brownish purple, yellow within, petals wooly. Capsule, 4-angled, contorted, to 40 cm long; seeds many, winged.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Digestive, Sexual problems, diuretic, Lithotropic, expectorant, cardio tonic and aphrodisiac, anti-inflammatory, anti bacterial, febrifuge, tonic, anti emetic, anti pyretic, rheumatalgia, malarial fever, wound, asthma and cough.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Sterequinone A
Sterequinone B
Sterequinone C
Sterequinone D Sterequinone E

Reference : ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697

~ S Prema, A. Saraswathi, Chitra Krishnan and Vinoth Gopal; "A review on Stereospermum colais Mabb: Bignoniaceae"; International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research (2013); 21(1): 314-317 PMID :

~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151

~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320

~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID :

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