Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS129 : Ziziphus nummularia (Burm. f.) Wight & Walk.-Arn.

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Synonym : Rhamnus microphylla Roxb.; Ziziphus lotus Aitch.; Ziziphus microphylla Roxb.; Ziziphus rotundifolia Lam.;

Plant Common Name : Jhar Beri • Bengali: Bhubadari, Bhui kul • Hindi: Jhar Beri, Jhar ber • Kannada: Mulluhannu, Paraji, Parapele • Marathi: Chanya-bor, Gangar, Junglebor • Sanskrit: Aja-priya, Balakapriya, Bhu-kartaka • Tamil: Korgodi, Parpalli-gidda, Narielandai • Telugu: Nelaregu, Jitta reni, Regu kampa • Urdu: Zariab, Poast jharberi

Plant Family : RHAMNACEAE

Description : Straggling shrub, 2-5 m high; branches divaricate, flexuous, tomentose when young; spines paired, one straight, very sharp, nearly as long as petiole, the other shorter, hooked. Leaves ovate, elliptic or orbicular, oblique or rounded at base, serrate at margin, acute or obtuse at apex, 1-2.5 x 0.5-1.8 cm, glabrous or tomentose above, tomentose to white-wooly beneath, 3-nerved at base. Inflorescences axillary 10-20 flowered cymes, short-peduncled or not. Flowers 4-5 mm across. Calyx lobes deltoid, acute, keeled nearly to base, 1.7-2.2 mm long. Petals obovate-spatulate, rounded or truncate at apex, 1-1.5 mm long. Stamens 0.8-1.2 mm long. Disc faintly 10-lobed. Ovary 2-loculed; style 2-cleft. Drupes globose, ca 0.8 cm, woody, glabrous, shining and black-red when ripe; seeds 1 or 2 compressed, black.

Plant Location in Melghat : Rare, on lower outer slopes.

Medicinal Use / Activity : in treatment of allergy, scabies and eczema.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Nummularine R; Amphibine H; Frangufoline; ascorbic acid; Mucronine D; Nummularine B; Nummularine F;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1):

Ascorbic acid;

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 :

~ Avni G. Desai, Ghulam N. Qazi, Ramesh K. Ganju, Mahmoud El-Tamer, Jaswant Singh, Ajit K. Saxena, Yashbir S. Bedi, Subhash C. Taneja, and Hari K. Bhat; "Medicinal Plants and Cancer Chemoprevention"; Curr Drug Metab. (2008); 9(7): 581–591 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Rosidae
Order : Rhamnales
Family : Rhamnaceae - Buckthorn family
Genus : Ziziphus Mill. - jujube
Species : Ziziphus nummularia (Burm. f.) Wight & Arn. - jujube

Ziziphus nummularia (Burm. f.) Wight & Arn. - jujube
Ziziphus nummularia (Burm. f.) Wight & Arn. - jujube