MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT094 : Ixora arborea Roxb. ex Sm. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 231 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Along banks of rivers in Chikhaldara,Semadoh and Akot ranges | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Rare | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Rubiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Lokhandi, Torchwood Tree • Hindi: Jilpai, kotagandhal, Lohajangin, Mashal-ka-jhar • Kannada: goravi, koravi • Konkani: Kurati • Malayalam: Soochimulla • Marathi: goravikatagi, maakadi, raikura • Sanskrit: Nemali, Nevali • Tamil: culuntu, koran | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Ixora pavetta Andr. Ixora decipiens DC. Ixora parviflora Vahl[Illegitimate] Ixora parviflora var. zeylanica Hook.f. |
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| Description : | Evergreen trees, 2.5-4.0 m high, bark brown and branches terete and glabrous. Leaves: stipules caducous, 0.5 x 0.4 cm; ovate, glabrous, apex cuspidate; petioles 0.1-0.2 cm long; lamina acute-cordate at base, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate 5.0-11.0 x 2.5-5.7 cm, surfaces rugose, shining, glabrous, lateral-veins 8-15 pairs, prominent abaxially, apex obtuse or sub-acute, margins entire. Flowers: 1.0 cm long, fragrant, numerous, in sub-globose clusters, peduncles 2-3 cm long; pedicels sessile; bracts apical ones oblong-lanceolate, basal ones ovate, acuminate; bracteoles subulate; calyx pubescent, ovoid-oblong; teeth 4, minute, triangular, sub-acute; corolla 0.5 cm long, tube glabrous, lobes 4, oblong, obtuse, deflexed; stamens 4, inserted at the mouth of the tube; anthers almost sessile, bases tailed, apex acute; style slender; stigmatic branches 2, elliptic, spreading. Fruits: glabrous, red(brownish-black in sicci). Flowers and fruits appears during January-April. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Flowers, pounded with milk, for whooping cough. Bark: a decoction for anaemia and general debility. Fruit and root, given to females when urine is highly colored. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Ixoral and Beta-sitosterol | |||||||||||||
| 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 : |
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