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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT095 : Magnolia champaca (L.) Baill. ex Pierre.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Magnoliales
Family : Magnoliaceae - Magnolia family
Genus : Magnolia
Species : Magnolia champaca (L.) Baill. ex Pierre.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Magnoliaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Champa, Golden Champa • Assamese: Tita-sopa • Bengali: Champa • Gujarati: Sachochampo • Hindi: Champa, Son champa • Kannada: Sampige • Konkani: Pudchampo • Manipuri: Leihao • Marathi: Pivalu Champa • Nepali: Aule chaanp • Oriya: Chompa • Sanskrit: Champaka • Tamil: Sambagan • Tangkhul: Shelungwon • Telugu: Champangi • Urdu: Champa • Marathi: Son-chafa • Nepali: Aule Chaanp, Champaa, Chaanp
 
Synonym : Michelia champaca L.
Description : It is a tree up to 50 m or taller, up to 1.9 m d.b.h. Flowers are fragrant, tepals 15-20, yellow, inverted-lanceshaped, 2-4 x 0.4-0.5 cm. Staminal connective is protruding and forming a long tip. Buds, young twigs, young petioles, and young leaf blades are pale yellow velvet-hairy. Twigs are ascending and forming a narrow umbelliform crown. Stipular scar 0.3-1 x as long as petiole. Leaf-stalks are 2-4 cm, leaves elliptic or ovate, 10-20 x 4.5-10 cm, slightly puberulous below, base broadly wedge-shaped or rounded, tip long-pointed tp falling off. Fruit is 7-15 cm; mature carpels obovoid-ellipsoid, 1-1.5 cm, tuberculate. Seeds 2-4 per carpel, rugose. Flowering: June-July.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The bark is used as a febrifuge. A decoction of the bark and leaves is given after childbirth. The flowers are used to treat leprosy. The leaves are used as a treatment against colic. The seeds are used to treat badly chapped skin. Traditionally, the joy perfume tree was used in several treatments including fever, leprosy, cough, ulcer, abdominal cohlic, rheumatism, constipation, dysmenorrhoea, bronchitis, wounds, skin diseases and various other disorders. Also, this plant possesses numerous pharmacological properties such as anti-microbial, anti-pyretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, insecticidal, anti-uretic, anti-dinic, carminative, anti-diabetic etc.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Quercetin
n-Docosanoic acid
9,12-octadecadienoic acid
Butanoic acid
Oleic acid
Camphorsulfonic acid
alpha-terpinolene
Beta-elemene
Beta- caryophyllene
alpha–humulene
Beta-selinene
alpha-selinene
gamma-cadinene
(E)-nerolidol
alpha-cadinol
Beta-bisabolol
Z-farnesol
E-farnesol
pentadecanol
hexadecanol
Gallic acid
Stigmasterol
Reference : ~ Dinesh Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Seema Taprial, Deepak Kashyap, Ajay Kumar and Om Prakash; "A review of chemical and biological profile of genus Michelia"; Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine (2012); 10(12): 1336-1340 PMID :

~ Pradeepa Panneerselvam, Vedha Hari B Narayanan and Ramya Devi Durai; "Pharmacological and Medicinal Potential from Flowers of Perfume Tree Michelia champaca – A Review"; International Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Research (2016 ); 8(11): 1896-1900 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 :