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MT077 : Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 456  
Class : Equisetopsida
Order : Malpighiales
Family : Phyllanthaceae
Genus : Bridelia
Species : Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss.
Plant Location in Melghat : In Kolkaz ,Raipur, Chunkhadi, Raipur  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Phyllanthaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : K- Khadka, Spinous Kino Tree, kaji, Khaja, kassi, asana, Mullu-Vengai, Adamarudu, Kaduga, Mulkaini, Mulluvenga, Kora maddi, Asana, Gojji, Komanji, Koyamarwa, mulluhonne, Nasinage, Geio, asana, ekavira
 
Synonym : Andrachne doonkyboisca B.Heyne ex Wall. [Invalid]
Bridelia airy-shawii P.T.Li [Illegitimate]
Bridelia amoena Wall. ex Baill.
Bridelia cambodiana Gagnep.
Bridelia chineensis Thin
Bridelia cinerascens Gehrm.
Bridelia crenulata Roxb.
Bridelia fordii Hemsl.
Bridelia fruticosa Pers.
Bridelia hamiltoniana var. glabra Müll.Arg.
Bridelia pierrei Gagnep.
Bridelia retusa (L.) Spreng.
Bridelia retusa var. glabra Gehrm.
Bridelia retusa var. glauca Hook.f.
Bridelia retusa var. pubescens Gehrm.
Bridelia retusa var. roxburghiana Müll.Arg. [Illegitimate]
Bridelia retusa var. squamosa (Lam.) Müll.Arg.
Bridelia retusa var. stipulata Gehrm.
Bridelia roxburghiana (Müll.Arg.) Gehrm.
Bridelia spinosa (Roxb.) Willd.
Bridelia squamosa (Lam.) Gehrm.
Bridelia squamosa var. meeboldii Gehrm.
Clutia retusa L.
Clutia spinosa Roxb.
Clutia squamosa Lam.
Description : Spinous Kino Tree is identified by rigid leathery leaves with straight parallel lateral veins and strong spines on the bark of young stems. It is a drought hardy species, produces root-suckers and a good coppicer. Leaf-blade is elliptic-oblong to elliptic-oblanceolate, 10-20 x 4-10 cm, tip somewhat pointed, sometimes blunt, base is rounded or roundly wedge-shaped, margin entire or wavy, thinly leathery, lateral nerves 15-20 pairs. Flowers are arranged in axillary fascicles and also in fascicles on leafless branches appearing as spikes. The fascicles are either unisexual or bisexual; axes densely puberulous; bracts small, acute; flowers stalked. Fruit is globose, fleshy sweetish drupe, about the size of a pea, purple-black, seated on a hard enlarged calyx. 1 or 2 seeds with fairly thick bony shells. Distributed throughout India, in hotter parts along the base of the Himalayas from Kashmir to Mishmi, southward to Ceylon. Flowering: May-August.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The plant is pungent, bitter, heating, useful in lumbago, hemiplegia; bark is good for the removal of urinary concretions (Ayurveda). Root and bark are valuable astringents. The bark is used as a liniment with gingelly oil in rheumatism. The bark is anti-viral, hypoglycaemic, hypotensive.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : benzoic acid
isochaminic acid
elemicin
cumic acid
Reference : ~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 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 :