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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT129 : Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Malpighiales
Family : Putranjivaceae
Genus : Putranjiva
Species : Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Putranjivaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Putranjiva, Lucky Bean Tree • Hindi: Putijia • Marathi: Jivanputra, Patravanti • Tamil: Irukolli, Karupala • Malayalam: Pongalam • Telugu: Kuduru, Putrajivika • Kannada: Amani Putrajiva • Bengali: Putranjiva, Jioysuta • Oriya: Poilundia • Konkani: Saman • Urdu: Paishandia • Gujarati: Putranjiva • Sanskrit: Putrajivah
 
Synonym : Cyclostemon racemosus Zipp. ex Span.
Drypetes roxburghii (Wall.) Hurus.
Drypetes roxburghii var. timorensis (Blume) Airy Shaw
Drypetes timorensis (Blume) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Nageia putranjiva Roxb., nom. illeg.
Putranjiva amblyocarpa Müll.Arg.
Putranjiva sphaerocarpa Müll.Arg.
Pycnosandra timorensis Blume
Description : Trees, to 20 m high, bark dark grey, whitish when young with horizontal lenticels; branches generally pendent; branchlets terete, brown or blackish, slender, pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipule small, lateral, caducous; petiole 5-7 mm long, slender, pubescent; lamina 3.5-12 x 1.5-4.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, base oblique, apex shortly acuminate, acute or obtuse with retuse tip; margin serrate or serrulate, glabrous, dark green, shining, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, pinnate, slender, ascending, prominent, intercostae reticulate, slender, prominent. Flowers unisexual, small, yellow; male flowers: sessile, in axillary spikes, 2-2.5 mm across; pedicels 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous; tepals 3-5, oblong, puberulous without, ciliate, obtuse, imbricate; stamens 2-4, 1.5-2 mm long; filaments thick, more or less connate towards base; anthers ovate, hairy; female flowers: solitary or in 2 or 3, axillary; pedicel upto 15 mm long, puberulous; bracts lanceolate; tepals 5-6, 2-2.5 × 1-1.5 mm, unequal, oblong, puberulous without, ciliate, acute; ovary superior, 3 x 2.5 mm, globose, tomentose, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style 3, spreading, tomentose, often connate below into dilated into broad fleshy stigma; stigma crescent-shaped, glandular. Fruit a drupe, 1.3-2 x 1.5 cm, ovoid-ellipsoid, white tomentose; seed one, crustaceous; pedicels 6-25 mm long.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : A decoction of leaves and fruit is taken for the treatment of liver complaints, colds, fevers and rheumatism.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Putranoside A
beta-amyrin
(-)-Epicatechin gallate
epi-Friedelinol
Friedlein
galactitol
Glucocleomin
Glucocochlearin
Glucoputranjivin
Patrinoside
Putranjivic acid
Putric acid
Rubranoside B
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 :