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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT138 : Terminalia tomentosa Wight & Arn.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Myrtales
Family : Combretaceae
Genus : Terminalia
Species : Terminalia tomentosa Wight & Arn.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : COMBRETACEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : Asan, Indian Laurel, Silver grey wood, White chuglam • Hindi: Asan, Saj • Marathi: Ain, Asan, Satada, Shardul • Tamil: Aruccunam, Karumarutu, Marutamaram • Malayalam: Matthi • Telugu: Innu maddi, Nalla maddi • Kannada: Banappu, Karimaddi, Sadada, Unapu mara • Bengali: Asan • Oriya: Sahaju • Sanskrit: Raktarjun
 
Synonym : Terminalia coriacea (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.
Chuncoa tomentosa Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
Pentaptera coriacea Roxb.
Pentaptera tomentosa Roxb.
Description : a tree growing to 30 m tall, with a trunk diameter of 1 m. The fruit is ovoid, 3 cm long, with five wings not extending beyond the fruit apex. The bark is fire-resistant. The wood is coarse, fairly straight grained, dull to somewhat lustrous and without any smell or taste. The heartwood varies from light brown with few markings to dark brown or brownish black and figured with darker streaks. The sapwood is reddish white and sharply differentiated. The heartwood is moderately durable and the sapwood is liable to powder-post beetle attack. The wood is used for furniture, cabinetwork, joinery, paneling, specialty items, boat-building, railroad cross-ties and decorative veneers.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The bark is astringent. It is used in the treatment of Diarrhea. The juice of the bark is applied externally to cuts and wounds. It can also be boiled then rubbed onto the head to remove dandruff. A paste of the gum is applied externally to burns and is also used to treat swellings caused by inflammation.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : pyrogallol
catechol
Arjunic acid
Arjunolic acid
Betulic acid
ellagic acid
Terminolic acid
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 :