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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT076 : Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C. B. Rob.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 449  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Laurales
Family : Lauraceae
Genus : Litsea
Species : Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C. B. Rob.
Plant Location in Melghat : In Chikhaldara range and Koktu  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : Rare, Endemic  
Plant Family : Lauraceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Ranamba, K-Maidalakri, Lenja, Indian Laurel • Hindi: medh, chandna, maidalakri • Kannada: lakki, lakkdi, maida lakdi • Marathi: maidalakdi, ranamba, maida lakadee • Oriya: gajphala gatcho • Sanskrit: medasaka • Tamil: muchaippeyetti, uralli, elumburukki • Telugu: kanugu nalike, meda, nara-nalike
 
Synonym : Berrya chinensis Klein ex Willd.
Cylicodaphne sebifera (Willd.) Bl.
Decapenta involucrata (Roxb.) Rafin.
Dodecadenia robusta Zoll. & Moritzi.
Glabraria litoralis (Bl.) Miq.
Glabraria tersa L.
Laurus crucifolia Noronha.
Laurus involucrata Roxb.
Litsea apetala (Roxb.) R. Br. ex Meisn.
Litsea baracatanensis Elmer.
Litsea chinensis Lam.
Litsea citrifolia Juss.
Litsea fruticosa Span. ex Bl.
Litsea geminata Bl.
Litsea glutinosa var. brachyphylla (Hand.-Mazz.) L.C. Wang.
Litsea involucrata (Roxb.) M.R.Almeida.
Litsea involucrata var. fernandezii M.R.Almeida & S.M.Almeida.
Litsea laevis Juss.
Litsea laurifolia (Jacq.) Kurz.
Litsea ligustrina Villar.
Litsea multiflora Bl.
Litsea platyphylla Pers.
Litsea sebifera (Willd.) Persoon.
Litsea tersa (L.) M.R.Almeida.
Litsea undulata Zipp. ex Bl. Malapoenna glabrata Kuntze.
Malapoenna macrantha (Wall.) Kuntze.
Malapoenna tersa (L.) Kuntze.
Malapoenna undulata Kuntze.
Pipalia solitaria Stokes.
Sebifera glutinosa Lour.
Tetranthera apetala Roxb.
Tetranthera capitata Roxb. ex Nees.
Tetranthera citrifolia (Juss.) Spreng.
Tetranthera daradmeda Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
Tetranthera fruticosa Roxb.
Tetranthera geminata (Bl.) Nees.
Tetranthera glabraria Nees.
Tetranthera hispidula Zipp. ex Bl.
Tetranthera laurifolia Jacq.
Tetranthera litoralis Bl.
Tetranthera macrantha Wall.
Tetranthera multiflora (Bl.) Nees.
Tetranthera panshia Herb. Buch.-Ham ex Wall.
Tetranthera platyphylla Nees.
Tetranthera polycephala Wall. ex Meisn.
Tetranthera roxburghii Nees.
Tetranthera salicifolia Zoll. ex Meisn.
Tetranthera sebifera (Willd.) Spreng.
Tetranthera tersa (L.) Spreng.
Tetranthera tomentosa Nees.
Tomex sebifera Willd.
Tomex tetranthera Willd.
Litsea glabraria Juss.
Description : Dioecious trees, to 10 m high, bark 2-2.5 cm thick, surface brown; branchlets rather slender, stiff, minutely tomentellous towards apex. Leaves simple, pilose when young; lamina 6-23.5 x 3-10 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or obovate, base acute, apex acute, obtuse or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above, grey-pubescent beneath, chartaceous; lateral nerves 7-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate. Flowers unisexual, 5-6 mm across, yellow, in many flowered umbels; peduncles upto 5 mm long, slender, densely pilose; perianth short; tube silky, funnel shaped, segments 0; stamens 9-12, all fertile, in 4 rows; filaments to 2 mm, very hairy; fourth series glandular, glands sessile, orbicular; ovary half inferior, 1 mm long; style 1.5 mm, stigma dilated, irregularly lobed; staminodes 9-12, to 2.5 mm. Fruit a berry, 5-6 mm across, depressed, globose, purple, on flat disc.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The root bark and leaves are used medicinally to reduce fever, reduce swelling, and treat Diarrhea. They also may be used for treating furunculosis. The leaves, and the mucilage in the gum from the bark, have been used for making poultices. The bark also acts as a demulcent and mild astringent in the treatment of Diarrhea and dysentery. The pounded seeds are applied externally against boils. respiratory disorders and rheumatism; Antimicrobial, anti-oxidant and anti-cancer
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : megastigmane diglycoside
Litseglutine A
Litseglutine B
boldine
laurolitsine
(6S, 7E, 9R)-roseoside
pinoresinol 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside
Reference : ~ Kong DG, Zhao Y, Li GH, Chen BJ, Wang XN, Zhou HL, Lou HX, Ren DM and Shen T; "The genus Litsea in traditional Chinese medicine: an ethnomedical, phytochemical and pharmacological review"; J Ethnopharmacol (2015); 164: 256-64 PMID : 25698244

~ K Venkata Ramana and AJ Solomon Raju; "Traditional and commercial uses of Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C.B. Robinson (Lauraceae)"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Studies (2017); 5(3): 89-91 PMID :

~ Yun-Song Wang,a Zhen Liao,b Yan Li,c Rong Huang,a Hong-Bing Zhanga and Jing-Hua Yang; "A New Megastigmane Diglycoside from Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C. B. Rob."; Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society (2011); 22(11): 2234-2238 PMID :

~ 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 :

~ 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 :

~ Das, DC.; Sinha, NK.; Chattopadhyay JC.; Das M. and Samanta P.; "The use of medicinal plants for the treatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis in south west Bengal of India"; International Journal of Phytomedicine (2013); 5: 14-17 PMID :