Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton - roostertree
Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton - roostertree
Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton - roostertree
MS064 : Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 296 |
| Synonym | : | Asclepias patula Decne.;
Asclepias procera Aiton.;
Calotropis busseana K. Schum.;
Calotropis gigantea var. procera (Aiton) P.T.Li.;
Calotropis heterophylla Wall Ex. Wight.;
Calotropis inflexa Chiov.;
Calotropis persica Gand.;
Calotropis syriaca Woodson.;
Calotropis wallichii Wight.;
Madorius procerus (Aiton) Kuntze.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Rui, Madar, Ak, Rubber Bush, apple of sodom, french cotton, sodom apple • Hindi: Aak, Mudar • Kannada: bili aekka, bili aekkada gida • Malayalam: erikku, erukku • Marathi: mandara, rui • Nepali: Seto Aank, Bahramaase Aank, Aank • Sanskrit: adityapushpika, alarka, ksiraparna, mandara • Tamil: vellai erukkan, vellai erukku • Telugu: erra jilledu, jilledu, mandaaramu |
| Plant Family | : | Asclepiadaceae |
| Description | : | A shrub or small tree, generally up to 2.5-4 m (max. 6) high. Stem round, usually simple (rarely branched), pale green, thickly covered with hoary pubescence which readily rubs off. Leaves decussate, obovate, acuminate 10-20 cm long and 4-10 cm wide. Inflorescence a dense, multiflowered, umbellate cyme arising from the nodes and appearing axillary or terminal. Corolla slightly campanulate, with 5 sepals that are 4-5 mm long; segments ovate, acute, rather concave, dull purple bordered with white on the upper side, silvery on the underside. Fruits sub-globose, ellipsoid or ovoid, recurved follicle, 7.5-10.0 cm. Seed light-brown, broadly ovate, flattened, 3.2 cm with silky hairs. A white milky sap is exuded from any wound on the plant. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Mostly near habitations, On bunds fields |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The bark and leaves are used for the treatment of leprosy and asthma, respectively. Used for Diarrhea, stomatic, sinus fistula, and skin disease, and the leaf part is used to treat jaundice. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: cardiac aglycones; calotropin; calotoxin; calactin; uscharidin; voruscharin; calotropagenin; 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://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/16848
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Rubber%20Bush.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/265660
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2876921/ |
| Reference | : | ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697 ~ Holaly E. Gbekley, Gnatoulma Katawa, Simplice D. Karou, SKokou Anani, Tchacondo Tchadjobo, Yaovi Ameyapoh, Komlan Batawila, and Jacques Simpore; "Ethnobotanical Study Of Plants Used To Treat Asthma In The Maritime Region In Togo"; Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. (2017); 14(1): 196-212 PMID : 28480398 ~ Ravi Kant Upadhyay; "Ethnomedicinal, pharmaceutical and pesticidal uses of Calotropis procera (Aiton) (Family: Asclepiadaceae)"; Int J Green Pharm (2014); 8:135-46 PMID : ~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151 ~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320 ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Omolola Temitope Fatokun, Tosin Ejiro Wojuola, Kevwe Benefit Esievo and Oluyemisi Folashade Kunle; "Medicinal plants used in the management of Asthma: A review"; EJPMR (2016); 3(7): 82-92 PMID : ~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID : ~ Mutiu Idowu Kazeem, Ayuva Mercy Mayaki, Bimpe Folashade Ogungbe, and Anthony Babajide Ojekale.; "In-vitro Studies on Calotropis procera Leaf Extracts as Inhibitors of Key Enzymes Linked to Diabetes Mellitus"; IJPR (2016); 15(Special issue): 37-44 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Gentianales |
| Family | : Asclepiadaceae - Milkweed family |
| Genus | : Calotropis R. Br. - calotropis |
| Species | : Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton - roostertree |