MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT080 : Mallotus philippensis (Lam.) Muell.Arg. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 469 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | At Higher elevation in parts of Chikhaldara and Tarubandha ranges | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Endemic | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Euphorbiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kamela, Kunku, K-Sendri, Kamala, Kampillaka, and Kapila, Kaamala Tree, Kamala Tree, dyer's rottlera, Monkey face tree, orange kamala, red kamala, scarlet croton • Hindi: kamala, raini, rohan, rohini, sinduri • Manipuri: Ureirom laba • Marathi: kesari, shendri • Tamil: kapila poti, kuranku-mañcanari • Malayalam: cenkolli, kunkumappuumaram, kurangumanjas, naavatta, nuurimaram • Telugu: kunkuma-chettu • Kannada: kunkuma-damara • Bengali: kamala • Sanskrit: kampilyaka | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Aconceveibum trinerve Miq. Croton coccineus Vahl, nom. illeg. Croton distans Benth., nom. nud. Croton montanus Willd. Croton philippensis Lam. Croton punctatus Retz., nom. illeg. Echinus philippensis (Lam.) Baill. Macaranga stricta (Rchb.f. & Zoll.) Müll.Arg. Mallotus bicarpellatus T.Kuros. Mallotus philippensis tomentosus Gamble Mallotus philippensis var. microphyllus Müll.Arg. Mallotus philippensis var. reticulatus (Dunn) F.P.Metcalf Mallotus reticulatus Dunn Mappa stricta Rchb.f. & Zoll. Rottlera affinis Hassk. Rottlera aurantiaca Hook. & Arn. Rottlera philippensis (Lam.) Scheff. Rottlera tinctoria Roxb. Rottlera tinctoria var. monstruosa Ham. ex Dillwyn Tanarius strictus Kuntze. |
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| Description : | Dioecious trees, to 12 m high, bark 4-5 mm thick, pale brown; branchlets, young leaves and inflorescence tawny or rusty pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, cauducous; petiole 7-60 mm long, stout, swollen at base, fulvous-pubescent with 2 small sessile glands on each side of the submit; lamina 5-20 x 2-8 cm, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, base acute or round, apex acuminate or acute, margin entire or sparsely serrate, glabrous above, greyish pubescent to fulvous tomentose with minute red glands beneath; coriaceous; 3-ribbed from base; lateral nerves upto 6 pairs, pinnate, ascending, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers unisexual, brick red, in rusty puberulous, terminal spicate panicles; male flowers: 4.5 mm across; tepals 4, lanceolate, stamens many; female flowers: 4 mm across, tepals 3 or 4, thicker than in males, ovate-lanceolate; ovary with red glands, superior, 3-celled, ovules one in each cell; styles 3, to 3.5 mm long, papillose. Fruit a capsule, 7-8 mm across, globose, 3-lobed, loculicidally 3 valved, densely red-glandular, pubescent; seeds 1-4, globose, glabrous, black. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Urinal diseases, Antifilarial, Antifertility, Antibacterial and anti-fungal, Anti-Inflammatory and Immunoregulatory Activity, Antioxidant Activity and Antiradical Activity, Protein Inhibition Implicated in Cancer Processes, Hepatoprotective Activity, Anticestodal Activity, Anthelmintic Activity, Antituberculosis Activity, Antiallergic Activity, Anti-Leukaemic Activity, Antiproliferative Activity, Anti-HIV Activity, Antitumor Activity, Wound Healing, Wound Healing; According to Ayurveda, leaves are bitter, cooling and appetizer. Fruit is heating, Purgative, anthelmintic, vulnerary, detergent, maturant, carminative, alexiteric and useful in treatment of bronchitis, abdominal diseases, spleen enlargement etc. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Coroglaucigenin Coroglaucigenin L-rhamnoside Corotoxigenin Corotoxigenin L-rhamnoside Lupeol-3-acetate Lupeol Friedelin acetylaleuritolic acid a-amyrin Beta-sitosterol Daucosterol Isocoumarins Bergenin Kamalachalcone A Kamalachalcone B Mallotophilippen C Mallotophilippen D Mallotophilippen E rottlerin isorallorottlerin Isorottlerin |
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| Reference : | ~ 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 : |
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