Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntze
Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntze
Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntze
Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntze
Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntze
MT019 : Cassine glauca Rottb. Kuntze.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 77 |
| Synonym | : | Elaeodendron glaucum (Rottb.) Pers.;
Cassine gymnosporiodes Kuntze.;
Celastrus glaucus (Rottb.) Vahl.;
Elaeodendron dichotomum Royle.;
Elaeodendron oxyodon Turcz.;
Elaeodendron roxburghii Wight & Arn.;
Euonymus grossa Wall.;
Euonymus tina Buch.-Ham.;
Loureira albens Raeusch.;
Mangifera glauca Rottb.;
Neerija dichotoma Roxb.;
Rhamnus nerija Spreng.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Jamrasi, Aran, K-Niru, Ceylon Tea • Hindi: Jamrasi, Malkakni, Kondagaidh, Dhebri • Marathi: Motha bhutya, Butkus • Tamil: Karuvali, Kanniramaram • Telugu: Nirija, Noorijia, Bhutan-kusama • Kannada: Kannurmara, Mookurichi, Kannire |
| Plant Family | : | Celastraceae |
| Description | : | A large tree; branchlets reddish; bark red inside, exuding a watery sap when cut. Leaves opposite or sub-opposite, 3-16 x 1.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, ovate-oblong or obovate, glabrous, dark green, shining above, glaucous beneath; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, channelled. Cymes axillary, dichotomous, 7.5-12 cm long; peduncle 2.5-6.5 cm long, often red. Flower 5 mm in diameter, whitish; calyx 4-5-lobed, lobes rounded, margin membranous; stamens included, filaments recurved, anthers with a 2-lobed connective. Ovary adnate to the disc; style very short, persistent. Fruit a dry, ovoid, drupe, 1-15 cm long, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Ceylon Tea is a large evergreen tree, upto 5 meters high. The genus name Elaeodendron means, olive tree - maybe referring to the ovoid fruit. Branchlets are reddish; bark red inside, exuding a watery sap when cut. Leaves are simple, opposite, 3-16 x 1.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, ovate-oblong or obovate, glabrous, dark green, shining above, glaucous beneath; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, channelled. Inflorescence is an axillary dichotomous cyme; Flower white or greenish yellow. Stamens four, inserted on the margin of the disk, recurved; anthers with a bilobed connective. Stamens shorter than petals. Disk thick and fleshy. Ovary 4-celled united with the disk; style short; fruit green in colour, ovoid and a drupe. In the Western Ghats, it is found in Satara, Pune, Konkan (Harishchandragad). Flowering: February-May. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Dhargad,Kelpani, Bori, Dabhya |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | anti-septic, Gyanic problems; The dried and powdered leaves are used as sternutatoires. They are also burnt and the smoke used as a fumigant in the treatment of certain nerve diseases, particularly to rouse women from hysteria. The powdered leaves are used as a snuff to relieve headaches. The bark is astringent and is also considered poisonous. The fresh root bark is rubbed into a paste with water and applied as a poultice on swellings. The root is said to be specific against snake bite. A cold water extract of the crushed roots is used as an emetic. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Ceylon%20Tea.html
-https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31165
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Elaeodendron+glaucum |
| Reference | : | ~ 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 : ~ 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 | : Celastrales |
| Family | : Celastraceae |
| Genus | : Cassine |
| Species | : Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntze |