Erythrina suberosa Roxb.
Erythrina suberosa Roxb.
Erythrina suberosa Roxb.
Erythrina suberosa Roxb.
MT032 : Erythrina suberosa Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 131 |
| Synonym | : | Erythrina alba Wight & Arn.;
Erythrina glabrescens (Prain)R.Parker
Erythrina maxima Wight & Arn.;
Erythrina stricta suberosa (Roxb.)Niyomdham.;
Erythrina suberosa var. glabrescens Prain.;
Erythrina sublobata Roxb.;
Micropteryx suberosa (Roxb.)Walp.;
Micropteryx sublobata (Roxb.)Walp.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Pangra, K-Gada Phassa, Corky Coral Tree, Indian Coral Tree • Hindi: Dhaul dhak • Marathi: Pangara • Tamil: Kincukam, murukku maram • Malayalam: Nimbataru, Paribhadram • Telugu: Balabhadrika • Kannada: Halivana, Keechige, Mandara • Bengali: Raktamandar • Konkani: Pangar • Sanskrit: mandara, paribhadra • Nepali: Phaledo • Nepali: Phaledo, Phullidhaa, Maander, Baru Marer |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae |
| Description | : | Deciduous trees, to 10 m high, bark grey, corky, deeply cracked; branchlets tomentose, armed. Leaves trifoliate, alternate; stipules about 5 mm long, lateral, lanceolate; rachis 7.5-12.5 cm long, stout, puberulent, pulvinate; petiolule upto 10 mm; stipels gland like, leaflets 15-10 x 5.5-12 cm, rhomboid-ovate, base deltoid or truncate, apex acute or obtuse, margin entire or sinuate, glabrous above and wooly pubescent beneath, coriaceous; 3-ribbed from the base, lateral nerves 4-5 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, about 4 cm long, bright scarlet, in axillary and terminal racemes; bracts lanceolate, cauducous; calyx tube about 5 mm long, campanulate, splitting to become bilabiate, glabrous; corolla exserted; petals 5, standard oblong, 3.8 x 2 cm, sessile, the wings minute, keels about 1.8 cm long, connate; stamens 10, monadelphous, the vexillary filament free in the upper two thirds; filaments 6 and 8 mm; anthers uniform; ovary inferior, oblong, downy-pubescent, stipitate, 1-celled, ovules many; style to 1 cm, curved, subulate at apex, not bearded, stigma capitate. Fruit a pod, to 15 cm long, linear-falcate, torulose, follicular, with spongy packing between seeds; seeds 2-5, dark reddish-brown, subreniform. Fl.Per.: March-April. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Seed poisonous if ingested. Leaves paste cathartic, diuretic, anti-septic, anti-inflammatory, applied on swellings and boils. Veterinary medicine, stem bark ash mixed with coconut oil and applied on blisters and wounds in cattle to remove maggots; ash of dried bark mixed with coconut oil applied on wound of neck of cattle as anti-septic; bark decoction applied on swelling or injuries to hump of cattle. Stem bark as fish poison. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: erythraline; erysodine; erysotrine; hypaphorine; sitosterol; stigmasterol; campesterol; cholesterol; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Stigmasterol; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242321029
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31297
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Corky%20Coral%20Tree.html
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5457340
- http://medplants.blogspot.com/2015/11/erythrina_suberosa_mullumurungu_dauldak.html |
| Reference | : | ~ 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 |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Fabales |
| Family | : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family |
| Genus | : Erythrina L. |
| Species | : Erythrina suberosa Roxb. |