Casearia elliptica Willd.
Casearia elliptica Willd.
Casearia elliptica Willd.
Casearia elliptica Willd.
Casearia elliptica Willd.
Casearia elliptica Willd.
MT004 : Casearia elliptica Willd.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 17 |
| Synonym | : | Casearia tomentosa; Anavinga lanceolata Lam.; Bedousia aromatica Raf.; Bedousia malabarica Dennst.; Casearia canziala (Buch.-Ham.) Wall.; Casearia cheela Royle; Casearia ovata Roxb.; Casearia pauciflora Royle; Casearia piscidia Buch.-Ham. ex Royle; Guidonia canziala (Buch.-Ham.) Kurz; Guidonia tomentosa (Roxb.) Kurz; Samyda bazanica Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. (Unresolved); Samyda canziala Buch.-Ham. (Unresolved); Samyda piscidia Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. (unresolved); Samyda serrulata Blanco (Unresolved) |
| Plant Common Name | : | Kali Karai, K- Kesa, downy-leaved false kamela, chilla, modgi, Toothed Leaf Chilla • Gujarati: munjhaad, munjaal • Hindi: chilla • Marathi: modgi • Nepali: sano bethe • Sanskrit: chilhaka • Tamil: katiccai • Telugu: chilaka-dududi |
| Plant Family | : | Salicaceae |
| Description | : | a small deciduous tree. Branches are spreading, and all plant parts are bitter. Leaves are toothed, elliptic-oblong, narrowed towards the tip, base oblique. Leaves are 5-12 cm long. with a stalk 6-12 mm long. Midrib and stalks of full grown leaves are hairy. Flowers are velvety, 8 mm across, greenish-yellow, regular bisexual, densely clustered on scaly axillary tubercles. Petals are absent. Sepals are usually 5. Stamens are usually 8, alternating with short hair-like staminodes. Fruit is 6-ribbed, 3-valved, with seeds embedded in a red pulp. The juice from the fruit is used as a fish poison. The wood is good for making combs. Flowering: March-May.
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| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Higher elevation of Chikhaldara range |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Seeds: Cure early stage of peptic ulcer, to cure sore throat and mouth infections, anti-oxidant, anti-microbial |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - 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/261755
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Toothed%20Leaf%20Chilla.html |
| Reference | : | ~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula
Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); 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 | : Magnoliatae |
| Order | : Malpighiales |
| Family | : Salicaceae (Willow family) |
| Genus | : Casearia |
| Species | : Casearia elliptica Willd. |