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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT121 : Millingtonia hortensis Linn

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Lamiales
Family : Bignoniaceae
Genus : Millingtonia
Species : Millingtonia hortensis L. fil.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : BIGNONIACEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : Indian Cork Tree, Tree Jasmine • Hindi: Neem Chameli • Marathi: Kaval nimb, buchade jhad, Akash chameli, Buch che phul • Tamil: Kat-malli • Malayalam: Katesam • Telugu: Kavuki • Kannada: Beratu, Birate mara • Oriya: Mach-mach, Bakeni, Sitahara • Konkani: Akasnimb
 
Synonym : Bignonia suberosa Roxb.
Description : Young shoots pubescent. Leaves 40-50 cm long; leaflets (3-)5-7 (-9-), ovate to elliptic-ovate, 23-40 x 12-35 mm, dentate to subentire, acuminate, cuneate to ± truncate, nerves prominent on undersurface. Panicles many-flowerd. Calyx cupular, c.2 mm long, truncate, lobes indistinct, persistent. Corolla tube cylindrical. 54-56 mm long, slender, lobes unequal, elliptic-ovate to oval, 6.5-12.5 x 5.6 6.5 mm. Stamens attached near mouth of corolla; filaments of longer stamens 10.5 mm; fertile anther cell oblong, 4 mm long, abortive cell linear, curved, c.1.2 mm long, staminodes filiform. Ovary linear-oblong, c. 4.5 mm long. Style filiform, exserted; stigma bilobed, lobes subovate, c. 1.2 mm long. Capsule not seen. Fl.Per.: Nov. Feb.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : the treatment of asthma, sinusitis and as a cholagogue and tonic. The flowers are also used in rituals and have good anti-microbial properties. The stem has brittle wood and liable to damaged by storms, stem bark is used traditionally as mainly lung tonic, anti-asthmatic and anti-microbial properties. Leaves and roots of cork tree used as anti-asthmatic and anti-microbial activity. Fruit is very long and narrow, pointed at both ends and contains thin, flat seeds. Trees do not seed very easily in India. Roots can be used for the treatment of tuberculosis and as an anti-asthmatic. The leaves of Cork tree are very ornamental and extracts of leaves has good anti-microbial activity.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : aminophylline
Hispidulin
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 :

~ 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 :