MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MB001 : Bambusa arundinacea (Retz.) Willd. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 561 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Bamboo | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Poaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Katang - Bans | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Arundarbor agrestis (Lour.) Kuntze Arundarbor arundinacea (Retz.) Kuntze Arundarbor bambos (L.) Kuntze Arundarbor orientalis (Nees) Kuntze Arundarbor spinosa (Buch.-Ham.) Kuntze Arundarbor teba (Miq.) Kuntze Arundo agrestis Lour. Arundo arborea Mill. Arundo bambos L. Arundo bambu Lour. Arundo excelsa Salisb. [Illegitimate] Arundo spinosa (Roxb. ex Buch.-Ham.) Oken Bambos arundinacea Retz. Bambos arundo J.F.Gmel. Bambos bambos (L.) W.F.Wright [Invalid] Bambos quinqueflora Stokes [Illegitimate] Bambusa agrestis (Lour.) Poir. Bambusa arundo Wight ex Steud. [Invalid] . Bambusa bambusa Huth [Invalid] Bambusa neesiana Arn. ex Munro [Invalid] Bambusa orientalis Nees Bambusa spinosa Roxb. ex Buch.-Ham. Bambusa spinosa Roxb. Ischurochloa arundinacea var. orientalis (Nees) Buse Ischurochloa spinosa (Buch.-Ham.) Buse Nastus arundinaceus (Retz.) Sm. Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss. |
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| Description : | Tall woody bamboo, stems thorny, numerous, tufted, up to 40 m tall, curving at top; branches numerous, internodes 30–45 cm long, prominent, bearing in lower parts of stems dense half whorls of stiff, naked, horizontal branches, armed with 2–3 recurved, stout spines; lowest nodes rooting; stem-sheaths leathery, orange-yellow when young, hairy outside, shining and ribbed inside, 30–45 cm long; blade triangular, glabrous, covered with a brown felt of bristly hairs inside; leaves thin, linear, up to 20 cm long, glabrous above, hair beneath; leaf-sheaths hairy, small; inflorescence an enormous panicle, often occupying the entire stem; branchlets loose clusters of pale, glabrous spikes. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The root (burnt root) is applied to ringworm, bleeding gums, painful joints (Khare, 2007). Seeds are acrid, laxative, said to be beneficial in strangury and urinary discharges (Chopra et al., 1958). Bark is used for skin eruptions (Khare, 2007). Leaf is emmenagogue, antileprotic, febrifuge, bechic, used in haemoptysis (Khare, 2007). anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant, Anthelmintic, Astringent, Emmengogue activity | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Oxalic acid Diferuloyl arabinoxylanhexasaccharide Diferuloyl oligosaccharide Taxiphyllin Coumarin lactones Anthraquinones Stigmast-5 22-dien-3beta-ol Stigmast-5-en-3beta-ol-beta-D glucopyranoside Silicates Seeds : Niacin Riboflavin Thiamine benzoic acid |
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| Reference : | ~ R I Patel; "Forest flora of Melghat"; Prabhat Press, Meerut (1968); PMID : ~ 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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