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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT003 : Cochlospermum religiosum (L.) Alston

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 16  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Malvales
Family : Bixaceae
Genus : Cochlospermum
Species : Cochlospermum religiosum (L.) Alston
Plant Location in Melghat : Throughout  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : Rare, Endemic  
Plant Family : Bixaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Ganer Gongal, Ganai, K- Phangra, Silk-Cotton Tree, Buttercup Tree, Kanikaara, Kinihiriyaa, Buttercup tree, Yellow slik cotton tree, Golden silk cotton tree • Hindi: Galgal • Marathi: Ganeri • Tamil: Kattupparutti • Konkani: Kondagogu • Bengali: Sonali simul • Kannada: Arasina buruga • Malayalam: Cempanni • Telugu: Konda gogu
 
Synonym : Bombax gossypium L.
Bombax religiosum L.
Cochlospermum balicum Boerl.
Cochlospermum gossypium DC.
Maximilianea gossypium Kuntze
Wittelsbachia gossypium Mart. & Zucc.
Description : Deciduous trees, to 10 m tall, bark 20-25 mm thick, surface dark grey, fibrous; branchlets thick. Leaves simple, palmately 3-5 lobed, alternate, estipulate; petiole 6-20 cm long, stout, swollen at base, pubescent; lamina 5-15 x 7-20 cm, base cordate, lobes, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, tips acute or acuminate, margin entire or crenate, serrate, glabrous above, densely white tomentose below, coriaceous; 5-7 nerved from the base, palmate, lateral nerves 7-10 in each lobe, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint. Flowers bisexual, 7.5-10 cm across, bright yellow, in grey tomentose terminal panicles; sepals 5, 2.5 x 1.5 cm, unequal, obovate, densely tomentose, deciduous; petals 5, 5 x 3 cm, obovate, deeply emarginate, contorted; stamens many, inserted on an eglandular disc, shortly connate at base into 8-10 clusters; filaments 1.5-2.5 cm long; anthers linear, opening by apical slit; ovary superior, globose, glabrate, 3-5-celled, ovules many; style 1, to 1 cm, filiform; stigma somewhat lobed. Fruit a capsule, 6-8 x 4.5-5.5 cm, 5-valved, obovoid, pear shaped, straight, leathery, brown; seeds many, 6 mm long, black, curved, embedded in white cotton.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : ANTI-CARCINOGENIC; Ladies urinal problems; The gum extracted from bark is used in the treatment of - Cough, Sedative and Cooling effect. It is used in the treatment of coughs and gonorrhea. The dried leaves and flowers are stimulant.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Myricetin
Gallic acid
2,3-Dihydroxybenzoic acid
Ascorbic acid
Quercetin
Cynarine
1,2,3,4,6-Pentagalloyl glucose
Syringaldehyde
Thymol
Ellagic acid
Isorhamnetin
Benzoic acid
Reference : ~ 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 :

~ RLS Sikarwar, Bharat Pathak & Anil Jaiswal; "Some unique ethnomedicinal perceptions of tribal communities of Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2008); 7(4): 613-617 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 :

~ Prashith Kekuda TR, Smruthi BS, Saima Banu and Swathi BG; "A comprehensive review on the ethnobotanical uses and pharmacological activities of Cochlospermum religiosum (L.) Alston (Bixaceae)"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Studies (2019); 7(3): 17-23 PMID :

~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID :