Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT025 : Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 94

Synonym : Calesiam grande (Dennst.) Kuntze.; Calsiama malabarica Rafin.; Dialium coromandelicum Houtt.; Haberlia grandis Dennst.; Lannea grandis (Dennst.) Engl.; Lannea wodier (Roxb.) Adel.; Odina gummifera Bl., nom. illeg.; Odina pinnata Rottl.; Odina wodier Roxb.; Rhus odina Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Spondias wirtgenii Hassk.; Tapiria wodier (Roxb.) March.; Wirtgenia octandra Jungh.;

Plant Common Name : Moin, G- Mangi, Indian Ash Tree, Moya, Wodier • Hindi: Mohin • Manipuri: Aaman • Marathi: moi, shemat, shimati, shinti • Tamil: Oti • Malayalam: Otiyan-maram • Telugu: Ajasrngi • Kannada: Godda, gumpina, kuratige, Udimara • Bengali: Jiola • Oriya: Indramai, Moi • Konkani: Moi • Coorgi: Goddana-mara • Assamese: Jia • Gujarati: Mavedi • Sanskrit: Jhingini

Plant Family : Anacardiaceae

Description : Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark surface grey to dark brown, rough, exfoliating in small irregular flakes, fibrous; blaze crimson red or deep pink; exudation gummy, red; young parts stellate-rusty tomentose. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the end of branchlets, estipulate; rachis 21-27 cm, stout, swollen at base, stellate-hairy pubescent when young; leaflets 7-11, opposite; petiolule 3-5 mm, slender, pubescent; lamina 5-12 x 3-8 cm, oblong, oblong-ovate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate, base oblique, acute or round, apex acuminate, margin entire, lower surface and part of the upper with scattered stellate pubescence, chartaceous; lateral nerves 10-16 pairs, parallel, prominent, puberulent beneath, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellowish-green; male flowers : in compound racemes, 8 mm across; calyx 4-lobed; lobes ovate, imbricate, persistent; petals 4, lanceolate, reflexed, imbricate; disc annular, 8-lobed; stamens 8, inserted below the disc, filaments unequal, subulate, ovary abortive; female flowers : in simple racemes; petals and sepals as in male flowers; stamens very short and small; anthers sterile; ovary superior, ovule pendulous from near the top of the cell.; styles 4; stigma peltate. Fruit a drupe, 12 mm long, ovoid, red; stone hard; seed compressed.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : bark used for skin diseases; . Its fruits are crushed and mixed with water and is used as fish poison.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Beta-Sitosterol; Physcion; Physcion anthranol-B; Leucocyanidin; Ellagic acid; Quercitin-3-arabinoside; Iso-quercitin; Quercetin; Leucodelphinidin; Morin; Kaempferol; gallic acid; epigallocatechin-3-gallate; catechin; chlorogenic acid; caffeic acid;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (11):

Beta-sitosterol;

Quercetin;

Kaempferol;

Delphinidin;

Catechin;

(+)-Gallocatechin;

Morin;

Caffeic acid;

Chlorogenic acid;

Ellagic acid;

Gallic Acid;

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/Indian%20Ash%20Tree.html - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Lannea+coromandelica - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230190 - http://jprsolutions.info/newfiles/journal_file_56cda2f724ad47.40580445.pdf - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343802/

Reference : ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID :

~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 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 :

~ 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 : Anacardiaceae - Sumac family
Genus : Lannea
Species : Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.

Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.
Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.
Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.
Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.