MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT073 : Stereospermum personatum (Hassk.) Chatterjee |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 373 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 : |
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