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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT136 : Stereospermum chelonoides (L. fil.) DC.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order :
Family : Bignoniaceae
Genus : Stereospermum
Species : Stereospermum chelonoides (L. fil.) DC.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : BIGNONIACEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : Fragrant Padri Tree • Assamese: parhori, paroli, ser phang • Garo: bolsel • Hindi: padeli • Kannada: adri, bili paadri, giri, hadari • Khasi: dieng sir • Malayalam: kacasthali, karannavu, karanyavu • Marathi: kalagori, kalgari, paadal • Mizo: zinghal • Naga: Ing-nge-ching • Nepali: Kuber bacha, jinghal, parhori • Sanskrit: kastapatala, patala • Tamil: ambuvagina, padiri, pathiriver, pumbadiri • Telugu: ambuvaasini, gallugudu, goddalipukusu, isakarasi
 
Synonym : Bignonia chelonoides L. fil.
Bignonia gratissima K.D.Koenig ex DC.
Bignonia suaveolens Roxb.
Heterophragma chelonoides (L. fil.) Dalzell & A.Gibson
Heterophragma suaveolens (Roxb.) Dalzell & A.Gibson
Hieranthes fragrans Raf.
Spathodea suaveolens (Roxb.) Benth. & Hook. fil.
Stereospermum suaveolens (Roxb.) DC.
Tecoma suaveolens (Roxb.) G.Don
Description : Tree is a large deciduous tree, 10-20 m tall, with velvet-hairy branches. Leaves are compound, 1-2 ft long, with 3-4 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets are 7-15 cm long, broadly elliptic, long-pointed. velvety on the underside, rounded and unequal at base, with 6-8 nerves, short-stalked. Fragrant flowers are borne in large lax panicles. They are 10-20 cm long, pinkish. Sepal cup is bell-shaped, 1 cm long, hairy, 3-5 lobed. Stamens are 4, remaining inside the flower-tube. Seed-pod is 1-2 ft long, cylindric, ribbed, rough.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : An infusion of the pleasant tasting root, as well as the fragrant flowers, is used as a cooling drink in the treatment of fevers. The juice of the bark is used to treat indigestion.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : 1-Hexacosanol
1-Triacontanol
Dehydrotectol
lapachol
Octadecanoate
oleic acid
palmitic acid
Scutellarein
Xyloidone
Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book 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 :