MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT059 : Mitragyna parvifolia (Roxb.) Korth. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 232 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Rubiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kalam,Kadamb,K-Kutebi, Kaim, True Kadamb • Hindi: Kaim, Kadamb • Bengali: Gulikadam • Marathi: Kalam • Nepali: Kaim, Phaaldu, Saano Haledo, Tikul | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Nauclea parvifolia Roxb. Stephegyne parvifolia (Roxb.) Korth. |
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| Description : | Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark 20-25 mm thick, grey-black, smooth exfoliations thin, irregular, fibrous; blaze pink, traversed by whitish rays; branchlets subterete. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules 1 cm long, interpetiolar, ovate-oblong or obovate, foliaceous, membranous, cauducous; petiole 10-40 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 5-16 cm x 2.5-10 cm, variable, ovate, orbicular, elliptic or ovate-oblong, base obtuse, attenuate, acute or subcordate, apex obtuse or round; margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, pinnate, prominent beneath; intercostae scalariform, slender; domatia present. Flowers bisexual, creamy white, 10-12 mm long, in terminal heads; peduncle supported by a pair of bract like oblong leaves; bracteoles small, subulate; calyx tube short, truncate, rim even; corolla tube funnel shaped, 8 mm long, villous inside, lobes 4-5 oblong, reflexed; stamens 5, attached towards the apex of corolla tube; anthers apiculate; ovary 2-celled, inferior, ovules many; style filiform; stigma mitriform, hollow at base. Fruit capsules in globose heads, 2-3 mm long, ribbed, separating in to two cocci, brown; seeds many, small, 10-ribbed. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The bark and roots are used in the treatment of fevers and colic. Roots & Bark: acrid, bitter, stomachic and febrifuge. Leaves: acrid, bitter, sweet, styptic, vulnerary, stomachic, anti-inflammatory, anodyne, depurative and febrifuge. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Pyroligneous acid rotundifoline isorotundifoline rhynchophylline isorhynchophylline pteropodine isopteropodine hirsutine dihydrocorynantheine akuammigine demethoxyisohortiamine Tetrahydroalstonine akuammigine pteropodine isopteropodine speciophylline uncarine F isorhynchophylline rhynchophylline isomitraphylline hirsutine corynantheidol dihydrocorynantheol angustine akuammigine tetrahydroalstonine pteropodine isopteropodine speciophylline uncarine F dihydrocorynantheol corynantheidol mitraphylline |
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| Reference : | ~ 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 : |
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