Chloroxylon swietenia (Roxb.) DC.
Chloroxylon swietenia (Roxb.) DC.
Chloroxylon swietenia (Roxb.) DC.
Chloroxylon swietenia (Roxb.) DC.
MT017 : Chloroxylon swietenia (Roxb.) DC.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 75 |
| Synonym | : | Chloroxylon chloroxylon (Roxb.) Huth.;
Swietenia chloroxylon Roxb.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Ceylon Satinwood, East Indian Satinwood, Buruta • Hindi: Bhirra, Bhivia, Dhoura, Girya • Marathi: Behru, Halda, Bheria, Hulda • Tamil: Vaaimaram or porasu, Mammarai, Porinja maram • Malayalam: Varimaram • Telugu: billu, billydu, billudu, bella • Kannada: bittulla, huragalu, hurihuli, masula • Oriya: bheru gatcho • Sanskrit: bhillotaka, bimbilota |
| Plant Family | : | Rutaceae |
| Description | : | Deciduous trees, to 15 m high; bark dark-brown, fissured, rough, blaze yellow with pungent smell; branchlets and rachis pubescent. Leaves pinnate, alternate; rachis to 10 cm, slender, pubescent when young; leaflets 12-40, subsessile, alternate; lamina 1-2 x 0.4-0.7 cm, oblong, base oblique, apex obtuse; margin entire, chartaceous, glands dotted, glabrous, dull bluish-green; midrib of leaflet near the lower margin, nerves obscure. Flowers bisexual, pubescent, white, in axillary and terminal panicles; calyx short; lobes 5, 1-1.5 mm; petals 5, 4 x 2 mm, clawed, gland dotted on the outer surface; disc 10 lobed; stamens 10, free, inserted, between lobes; ovary immersed in disc, 3 lobed, 3-celled, ovules 4-8 in each cell. Fruit a capsule, 2.5 x 1 cm, loculicidal; seeds many, 15-18 mm long, flat, winged apically. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The crushed leaves are applied externally to treat wounds, snake bites and rheumatism. A paste of the leaves and roots is taken internally to treat headache and is applied to the forehead as a balm for the same purpose. The root bark in milk is drunk to treat impotence. A bark extract is considered astringent and taken to treat fever, chest pain and in a mixture with other plants to treat asthma. In friction it is used to treat bruises and painful joints. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: limonene; germacrene D; geijerene; pregeijerene; trans-β-ocimene; methyl eugenol; 2,4-dihydroxy-5-prenycinnamic acid; pinene; ocimene; beta-caryophyllene; germacrene D; pregeijerene; geijerene; Gossypetin; Gossypetin-8-O-beta-D glucopyronoside 3- Sulphate; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (6): Caryophyllene; Beta-caryophyllene; Limonene; Eugenol; Ocimene; Cinnamic acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Vulnerable (VU) |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Chloroxylon+swietenia
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31192
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Ceylon%20Satinwood.html
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270396851
- http://rprcbbsr.com/View/Downloads/news/Chloroxylon%20swietenia%2019.6.15.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 ~ 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 ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 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 : ~ S. Palani, S. Raja and B. Senthil Kumar; "Hepatoprotective and antioxidant potential of Chloroxylon swietenia (Rutaceae) On Acetaminophen Induced toxicity in Male Albino Rats"; Int. J. PharmTech Res (2010); 2(1): 162-170 PMID : ~ 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 |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Sapindales |
| Family | : Rutaceae - Rue family |
| Genus | : Chloroxylon |
| Species | : Chloroxylon swietenia (Roxb.) DC. |