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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT019 : Cassine glauca Rottb. Kuntze.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 77  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Celastrales
Family : Celastraceae
Genus : Cassine
Species : Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntze
Plant Location in Melghat : Dhargad,Kelpani, Bori, Dabhya  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : Rare  
Plant Family : Celastraceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Jamrasi, Aran, K-Niru, Ceylon Tea • Hindi: Jamrasi, Malkakni, Kondagaidh, Dhebri • Marathi: Motha bhutya, Butkus • Tamil: Karuvali, Kanniramaram • Telugu: Nirija, Noorijia, Bhutan-kusama • Kannada: Kannurmara, Mookurichi, Kannire
 
Synonym : Elaeodendron glaucum (Rottb.) Pers.
Cassine gymnosporiodes Kuntze.
Celastrus glaucus (Rottb.) Vahl.
Elaeodendron dichotomum Royle.
Elaeodendron oxyodon Turcz.
Elaeodendron roxburghii Wight & Arn.
Euonymus grossa Wall.
Euonymus tina Buch.-Ham.
Loureira albens Raeusch.
Mangifera glauca Rottb.
Neerija dichotoma Roxb.
Rhamnus nerija Spreng.
Description : A large tree; branchlets reddish; bark red inside, exuding a watery sap when cut. Leaves opposite or sub-opposite, 3-16 x 1.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, ovate-oblong or obovate, glabrous, dark green, shining above, glaucous beneath; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, channelled. Cymes axillary, dichotomous, 7.5-12 cm long; peduncle 2.5-6.5 cm long, often red. Flower 5 mm in diameter, whitish; calyx 4-5-lobed, lobes rounded, margin membranous; stamens included, filaments recurved, anthers with a 2-lobed connective. Ovary adnate to the disc; style very short, persistent. Fruit a dry, ovoid, drupe, 1-15 cm long, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Ceylon Tea is a large evergreen tree, upto 5 meters high. The genus name Elaeodendron means, olive tree - maybe referring to the ovoid fruit. Branchlets are reddish; bark red inside, exuding a watery sap when cut. Leaves are simple, opposite, 3-16 x 1.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, ovate-oblong or obovate, glabrous, dark green, shining above, glaucous beneath; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, channelled. Inflorescence is an axillary dichotomous cyme; Flower white or greenish yellow. Stamens four, inserted on the margin of the disk, recurved; anthers with a bilobed connective. Stamens shorter than petals. Disk thick and fleshy. Ovary 4-celled united with the disk; style short; fruit green in colour, ovoid and a drupe. In the Western Ghats, it is found in Satara, Pune, Konkan (Harishchandragad). Flowering: February-May.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-septic, Gyanic problems; The dried and powdered leaves are used as sternutatoires. They are also burnt and the smoke used as a fumigant in the treatment of certain nerve diseases, particularly to rouse women from hysteria. The powdered leaves are used as a snuff to relieve headaches. The bark is astringent and is also considered poisonous. The fresh root bark is rubbed into a paste with water and applied as a poultice on swellings. The root is said to be specific against snake bite. A cold water extract of the crushed roots is used as an emetic.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); 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 :