Garuga pinnata Roxb.
Garuga pinnata Roxb.
Garuga pinnata Roxb.
Garuga pinnata Roxb.
Garuga pinnata Roxb.
MT016 : Garuga pinnata Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 74 |
| Synonym | : | Garuga kenghar Buch.-Ham.;
Garuga pharhad Buch.-Ham.;
Kunthia cochinensis Dennst.;
Kunthia pinnata (Roxb.) Kuntze.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Kekad, K-Kekeda, Garuga, grey downy balsam • Hindi: kharpat • Marathi: kakad • Tamil: arunelli, karuvempu • Malayalam: annakaara, kaattunelli • Telugu: garuga, konda vepa • Kannada: aranelli, biligadde, kaashthanelli • Bengali: jum, kapila • Oriya: kekadogatcho • Konkani: kudak • Assamese: pama • Gujarati: kaked, khusimb • Mizo: bungbu tuairam • Sanskrit: karnikarha, kinikirath • Nepali: dabdabe • Nepali: Dabadabe, Ramasin |
| Plant Family | : | Burseraceae |
| Description | : | Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark grey or brown, shallowly longitudinally furrowed, exfoliating in large irregular flakes; blaze orange-red. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, crowded at the tips of branchlets; stipules 5 mm, falcate; rachis 15-30 cm long, pubescent; leaflets 11-21, opposite, petiolule 1-2 mm, slender, pubescent; lamina 2.8-14.8 x 1.5-6 cm, oblong-lanceolate, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, base oblique, cuneate or subacute, margin crenate or serrate, pubescent, chartaceous; lateral nerves 12-18 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Leaf galls copious. Flowers polygamous, yellow, 4 mm across, in axillary panicles to 15 cm; bracts linear to 2 mm; calyx campanulate, tomentose, deciduous; lobes 5, ovate; petals 5, oblong-lanceolate, tomentose, thickened and inflexed at apex; disc crenate, yellow; stamens 10, inserted on calyx tube; filaments 1.5 and 2.5 mm, pubescent; ovary superior, globose, pilose, 5-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style pubescent; stigma 5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, greenish-yellow, oblong or irregularly globose, horned; pyrenes 2 or 3; seed one, with a membranous wing. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Leaf juice is astringent; given with honey in asthma; also given along with the leaf juice of Adhatoda zeylanica and Vitex trifolia. Fruits are stomachic and expectorant; given in Diarrhea in Rema-Kalenga. Stem juice dropped into the eyes to cure opacities of the conjunctiva. Decoction of the root is given for the treatment of pulmonary affections (Yusuf et al. 2009)Leaf juice is astringent; given with honey in asthma; also given along with the leaf juice of Adhatoda zeylanica and Vitex trifolia. Fruits are stomachic and expectorant; given in Diarrhea in Rema-Kalenga. Stem juice dropped into the eyes to cure opacities of the conjunctiva. Decoction of the root is given for the treatment of pulmonary affections (Yusuf et al. 2009) |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: 9-Desmethylgaruganin I; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Garuga.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/251659
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Garuga+pinnata
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314432934
- https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b5d9/e91231278558f4c36ed9bac0d984e20881e2.pdf |
| 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 ~ B. Lavanya and S. Thangamalathi; "Garuga pinnata Roxburgh – An update"; International Journal of Institutional Pharmacy and Life Sciences (2016); 6(2): 6-11 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 ~ 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 : ~ Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal; "Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2015); 9(32): 851-862 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); 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 |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Sapindales |
| Family | : Burseraceae - Frankincense family |
| Genus | : Garuga |
| Species | : Garuga pinnata Roxb. |