Embelia ribes.
Embelia ribes.
MS061 : Embelia ribes Burm.f.
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 286 |
| Synonym | : | Embelia paniculata;
Antidesma ribes; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Waiwarang, Bhrangeli, Vidanga, Baoberang, Embelia • Gujarati: Vavding • Hindi: Vidanga • Kannada: amogha, hulimeese, vaayu vilanga • Malayalam: Vizhal, Vizhalari, Vayuvilangam • Marathi: ambti, baavdinga, karkannie, karkunnie • Sanskrit: amodha, amogha, vidanga • Tamil: vitankam, vivilangam, vollai • Telugu: vellal, vidangamu, vilangamu, vyivilangamu • Urdu: baobadang, baobarang, bab-o rang |
| Plant Family | : | Primulaceae |
| Description | : | Climbers; branchlets slender, white, without lenticellate. Leaves to 7 x 3 cm, elliptic, acute at both ends; nerves many, parallel, faint; petiole 1 cm long. Panicles 15 x 15 cm, glabrous, branches long, slender racemose; pedicels 1.5 cm long. Flowers white, many; sepals small, triangular, tomentose; petals 2 mm long, ovate, acute, densely tomentose. Berry 2.5 mm across, globose. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Bori, Chaurakund, Dolar, Chikhaldara |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Improves the functioning of the digestive system and alleviates flatulence, gaseous belching and constipation. Useful in expelling the tape worm out of the digestive system, facial paralysis, epilepsy and insanity. Paste of Embelia ribes reduces cavities and skin associated disease. It is being used in indigestion, constipation, paralysis, convulsions, epilepsy, wormal infestation, infections in body. It also helps in blood purification and healing of wound. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Embelin; Embelinol; Embeliaribyl ester; Embeliol; Vilangin; Quercitol; christembine; Sitosterol; daucosterol; vanillic acid; cinnamic acid,; caffeic acid; chrorogenic acid; o-cumaric acid; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Caffeic acid; Cinnamic acid; |
| 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/225734
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Vidang.html
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302958936 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Ericales |
| Family | : Primulaceae |
| Genus | : Embelia |
| Species | : Embelia ribes. |