Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT033 : Ougeinia oojeinensis (Roxb.)Hochr.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 146

Synonym : Desmodium oojeinense (Roxb.)H.Ohashi.; Ougeinia dalbergioides Benth.;

Plant Common Name : Tiwas K-Ruthu, G-sed, Sandan • Hindi: Sandan, Tinnas • Kannada: bettahonne, huli, karimutale, karimuttala • Malayalam: malavenna, nemi, totukara • Marathi: kalapalas, tanach, tewas • Nepali: Sandan • Oriya: bandano • Sanskrit: Akshaka, Ashmagarbhaka, Atimuktaka, Bhasmagharba • Tamil: vengai, atimuttam, cakkirini • Telugu: Tellamotuku atimuktamu, badanegi

Plant Family : Fabaceae

Description : A small deciduous tree upto 12 m tall with grey or dark brown, deeply cracked bark. Leaves alternate, trifoliate, to 30 cm long(including the petiole); petioles 3.8-5 cm long; stipules 6 mm long, lanceolate, acute; leaflets broadly ovate, 7.5-15 cm long and 3.8-10 cm wide, coriaceous, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent beneath, base cordate, margins shallowly crenate, main nerves 4-8 pairs, petiolules 3 mm long. Flowers white or pink, somewhat fragrant, borne in short-fascicled racemes arising from the nodes of old branches; pedicels 1.2-2 cm long, filiform; bracts c.1.3 mm long, ovate, acuminate; bracteole 1 beneath the calyx, minute; calyx 4-6 mm long, pubescent, teeth short, triangular; corolla 1-1.3 cm long. Fruits(pods) linear-oblong, 5-7.5 cm long, light brown, flat, joints 2-3 times as long as broad, reticulately veined; seeds 2-5.

Plant Location in Melghat : Marida , Jarida Dhargad

Medicinal Use / Activity : Juice of the root, mixed with the powder of two fruits of black pepper, is taken in cases of eye trouble. The bark is used against fevers. A paste of bark is applied to cuts and wounds. A sap exudate is used to make a medicine against dysentery. The gum is astringent. The bark used as astringent, acrid, cooling, stimulant, anti-inflammatory, constipating, urinary astringent, anthelmintic, sudorific, depurative, styptic, febrifuge and rejuvenating. The extract of the whole plant showed anti – inflammatory, hypotensive action, anti-oxidant activity, Hepatoprotective, anthelmintic, hypoglycemic and wound healing activities.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: genistein; ougenin; dalbergioidin; kaempferol; lupeol; Ferreirin; neophellamuretin; orobol; wedelolactone; homoferririn isoflavanone; betulin; dalbergioidin; homoferreirin; ougeinin;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5):

Lupeol;

Kaempferol;

Genistein;

Betulin;

Wedelolactone;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sandan.html - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229509 - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Desmodium+oojeinense - https://www.jchps.com/issues/Volume%206_Issue%202/jchps%206(2)%201%20page%2073_77.pdf

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Equisetopsida
Subclass :
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Ougeinia
Species : Ougeinia oojeinensis (Roxb.)Hochr.

Ougeinia oojeinensis (Roxb.)Hochr.
Ougeinia oojeinensis (Roxb.)Hochr.
Ougeinia oojeinensis (Roxb.)Hochr.
Ougeinia oojeinensis (Roxb.)Hochr.