Carissa carandas L. - karanda
Carissa carandas L. - karanda
Carissa carandas L. - karanda
Carissa carandas L. - karanda
Carissa carandas L. - karanda
Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
Synonym | : | Arduina carandae Baill.; Arduina carandas (L.) Baill.; Carissa salicina Lam.; Echites spinosus Burm.f.; Jasminonerium carandas (L.) Kuntze; Jasminonerium salicinum (Lam.) Kuntze; |
Plant Common Name | : | Karanda • Hindi: Karonda • Malayalam: Karakka • Telugu: Peddakalavi • Marathi: karvand • Tamil: Kalakkai |
Plant Family | : | APOCYNACEAE |
Description | : | Armed shrubs, latex milky, dichotomously branched, spines forked at apex, 4.5 cm. Leaves 6 x 3.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex obtuse or emarginate, subcoriaceous; petiole to 0.5 cm. Cymes axillary and terminal, corymbose, puberulus; flowers white; calyx 5-lobed, 2.5 mm ,ovate, , aristate; corolla hypocrateriform, tube 2 cm, pubescent, twisted, 7 x 3 mm, ovate, pubescent; stamens 2.5 mm, obtuse, mucronate, sessile; ovary 1 mm, stigma fusiform, twisted. Berry 2.5 cm across, black when ripe. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The fruits are astringent, antiscorbutic and also used as a remedy for biliousness. A leaf decoction is used against fever, Diarrhea, and earache. The roots serve as a stomachic, vermifuge and remedy for itches. |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Ursolic acid; Sasanquol; palmitic acid; oleic acid; Odoroside H; Octadecanoate; MYRCENE; malonic acid; GERANYL ACETATE; Digitalose; (-)-camphene; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (6): Ursolic Acid; Geranyl acetate; Camphene; Myrcene; Palmitic acid; Odoroside H; |
Plant's Current Status | : | |
Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
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 |
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 : |
Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
Subclass | : Asteridae |
Order | : Gentianales |
Family | : Apocynaceae - Dogbane family |
Genus | : Carissa L. - carissa |
Species | : Carissa carandas L. - karanda |