MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT075 : Tectona grandis L. f. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 408 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Very common, Abundant and the most dominant tree of the entir Tiger Reserve | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Verbenaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Sag, Sagwan, K-Sipna, Teak, Hindi: Sagun, Manipuri: Chingsoo, Marathi : Sagwan, Bengali: Saguna, Tamil : Tekku | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Jatus grandis (L.f.) Kuntze. Tectona grandis f. abludens Koord. & Valeton. Tectona grandis f. canescens Moldenke. Tectona grandis f. pilosula Moldenke. Tectona grandis f. punctata Moldenke. Tectona grandis f. tomentella Moldenke. Tectona theca Lour. Theka grandis (L.f.) Lam. |
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| Description : | Deciduous trees, to 30 m high, bark 10-20 mm thick, yellowish-brown, rough, shallowly vertically fissured, fibrous; blaze pale yellowish concentrically lamellate; bole often fluted at base; branchlets 5-10 mm thick, 4-angled, puberulous. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 10-50 mm long, stout, tomentose; lamina 30-60 x 15-30 cm, ovate, obovate, base attenuate, apex acute or obtuse, margin entire, wavy, glabrous above and pubescent below with minute red glands, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-10 pairs, pinnate, prominent, raised beneath, puberulent beneath; intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, white, 7 mm across, in terminal cymose panicles, 10-30 cm across, puberulus; calyx 5 mm long, campanulate, lobes 5-6, subequal, ovate, tomentose; corolla 6 mm long, lobes 5-6, oblong, spreading; stamens 5-6, equal, erect, inserted at the throat, exserted; filaments 3 mm; anthers oblong; ovary globose, superior, densely hairy, 4-celled, 1 ovule in each cell; style slender, 4 mm; stigma linearly bifid. Fruit a drupe, 1.5-2 cm across, globose, brown, densely floccose hairy, covered by the inflated calyx, epicarp spongy, endocarp stony; seeds 1-4, oblong. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | It is vermifuge; promotes digestion; is effective in relieving bilious headaches and toothaches; reduces inflammations or eruptions of the skin. The charred wood, soaked in poppy juice and made into a paste, has been used to relieve the swelling of the eyelids. The wood has been used as a hair tonic. An oil extracted from the roots is used to treat eczema, ringworms and inflammation. The bark has been used as an astringent and in the treatment of bronchitis. The flowers are diuretic. They are used to treat biliousness, bronchitis and urinary disorders. The seeds are diuretic. An oil extracted from the seeds promotes hair growth. The leaves have a reputation of being diuretic, depurative, purgative, stimulant, antidysenteric and vermifuge. They are used in traditional medicine to treat anaemia, asthenia, fever and malaria, amoebiasis, schistosomiasis and tuberculosis. Extracts of the leaves are reported to be effective against mycobacterium tuberculosis, to treat bleeding of larynx, trachea, bronchi, or lungs, and sore throat. An oil extracted from the tender shoots is used against scabies in children. Medicinally it has various pharmacological activities like anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory, anti-pyretic, analgesic, anti-diuretic, and hypoglycemic. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | astectoquinone 5-hydroxylapachol tectol betulinic acid squalene lapachol Acetovanillone E-isofuraldehyde Evofolin syringaresinol medioresinol balaphonin lariciresinol zhebeiresinol 1-hydroxypinoresinol Tectonoelin A Tectonoelin B tecomaquinone methylquinizarin alpha-dehydrolapachone beta-dehydrolapachone tectol dehydrotectol pachybasin obtusifolin trichione beta-sitosterol sqaulene tectograndinol |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Rajendra Prasad Bharti, Abhilasha shrivastava, Jagjeevan Ram Choudhary, Asha Tiwari and N. K. Soni; "Ethno Medicinal Plants used by Tribal Communities in Vindhya region of Rewa and Sidhi District of Madhya Pradesh, India"; IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences (2013); 8(6): 23-28 PMID : |
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