Ensete superbum
Ensete superbum
Ensete superbum
Ensete superbum
Ensete superbum
MH278 : Ensete superbum (Roxb.) Cheesman
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 497 |
| Synonym | : | Musa superba Roxb.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Jangli Kela, Rock Banana, Wild plantain, jungli kela, kaadu baale, raan kyaanle, kall vazha, chaveni, raankel, bahuja, kal-valai, kattu-valai, adavi arati |
| Plant Family | : | Musaceae |
| Description | : | Erect shrubs with unbranched globose leafsheaths formed into a pseudostem of 50-100 cm diam. Leaves spirally arranged, 3 x 0.8 m, oblong, entire with channelled midrib; lateral nerves many, parallel from midrib. Spadix 50-100 cm long, with 3-5 spathes at base; bracts several, to 20 x 14 cm, ovate, obtuse, brown. Flowers many on each bracts; unisexual, female flowers towards the base and male flowers above; sepals and 2 petals united into a sheath, 3.5 cm long, 5-lobed; third petals forms into a membranous sheath; stamens 5, perfect, anthers 2.5 cm long, linear-oblong, filaments free; ovary 3-celled, inferior; ovules several in each cell; style simple, stigma globose. Fruit oblong; seeds few, subglobose, black. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | anti-diabetic, diabetes, kidney stone, leucorrhea, measles, stomach ache |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: 4-(4-hydroxy-3-methyl-hex-5-enyl)-chroman-2, 7-diol; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229603
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Rock%20Banana.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensete_superbum
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4823609/ |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : ~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Zingiberidae |
| Order | : Zingiberales |
| Family | : Musaceae - Banana family |
| Genus | : Ensete Horan. - ensete |
| Species | : Ensete superbum |