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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MC061 : Dalbergia volubilis Roxb.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Equisetopsida
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae
Genus : Dalbergia
Species : Dalbergia volubilis Roxb.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Climbers  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : FABOIDEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : Climbing Dalbergia, bastard rosewood climber • Assamese: bar medeluwaa • Gujarati: nilasoti • Hindi: bankhara, bhatia • Kannada: mardiball • Konkani: alyo • Malayalam: vallivitti • Marathi: alai, munganvel • Oriya: nubardi • Tamil: punali-k-koti • Telugu: bandigurigindza
 
Synonym : Dalbergia confertiflora
Dalbergia purpurea
Dalbergia stipulacea
Description : a large woody climbing shrub or climber. Branches are smooth, twining or twisted into spiral hooks. Leaves are compound, 10-15 cm long. Leaflets are 11-13, thickly leathery, 2.5-5 cm long, quite variable in shape, oblong, obovate-oblong to ovate-elliptic. Flowers are small, pale blue, in copious panicles, 20-30 cm long, in leaf axils and at branch ends. Pods are 5-7 cm long, linear-oblong, obtuse. Flowering: January-May.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The juice of the leaves is applied to aphthae and used as a gargle in sore throat. The root juice with cumin and sugar is given in gonorrhea. The plant is used for gastritis in Khagrachari. A glycosidic substance from leaves showed anti-inflammatory and antiarthritic activities and a new level of general toxicity.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Friedlein
Tectorigenin
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 :

~ Rabinarayan Acharya, Switu V Jani, CR Harisha and Vinay J Shukla; "Phytopharmacognostical investigations on root and stem of Dalbergia volubilis Roxb.: An extrapharmacopoeial plant of Ayurveda"; AYU (2018); 39: 151-158 PMID :

~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID :