MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT098 : Litsea monopetala (Roxb. ex Baker) Pers |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | found along streams in Semadoh region | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Rare | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Lauraceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Meda • Hindi: Meda, Gwa, Singraf, Katmarra, Jangli-rai-am • Manipuri: Tumitla • Marathi: ranamba • Tamil: maidalagadil, muchaippeyetti, picinpattai • Mizo: nauthak • Telugu: chiru mamidi, meda, chiru maamidi, naara, narachettu, naramaamidi • Kannada: gajapippali, hemmudi, kainji • Bengali: bara-kukurchita • Khasi: dieng soh phohskei, dieng sohtyllap • Nepali: Kutmira • Assamese: muga, sualu • Nepali: Katamero, Kutamero, Raatamaati | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Litsea apetala Pers. Litsea hexantha Siebold ex Bl. Litsea polyantha Juss. Malapoenna monopetala (Roxb. ex Baker) Kuntze Tetranthera alnoides Miq. Tetranthera fruticosa Buch.-Ham. ex Meisn. Tetranthera hexantha Sieber ex Meisn. Tetranthera hirana Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Tetranthera macrophylla Wall. Tetranthera monopetala Roxb. ex Baker Tetranthera quadriflora Roxb. Tetranthera verticillata Buch.-Ham. ex Meisn. Tetranthera villosa Boj. Tomex monopetala (Roxb. ex Baker) Hoffmgg. Tomex pubescens Willd. ex Meisn. |
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| Description : | A small tree up to 18 m tall, with a straight to crooked trunk, up to 60 cm in diameter. Bark is longitudinally fissured, dark greyish, inner bark brown mottled. Alternately arranged elliptic leaves, 4.5-17 cm x 2.5-10 cm, are pointed or blunt, smooth above, sparsely hairy below. The midrib is sunken above, with 6-13 pairs of secondary veins which are sunken above. Leaf stalk is about 1-2.5 cm long. Yellow flowers are borne in stalked umbellets in short racemes, with 6 tepals and 9-12 stamens. Fruit is oblong to ellipsoid, 0.7-1.2 cm long, seated on a small flat perianth cup. Flowering: March-May. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Seeds contain an oil which is used medicinally as ointments for rheumatism manufacturing candle in India. Bark is used as astringent and in Diarrhea. The leaves are used as a topical medicine for the treatment of arthritis. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Loperamide | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ 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 : |
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