Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT036 : Bauhinia malabarica Roxb.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 165

Synonym : Bauhinia acida Korth.; Bauhinia castrata Hassk.; Bauhinia hawkesiana F.M.Bailey.; Bauhinia malabarica var. reniformis Baker.; Bauhinia platyphylla Miq.; Bauhinia rugulosa Miq.; Casparea castrata (Hassk.)Hassk.; Pauletia acida (Korth.)Hassk.; Piliostigma acidum (Korth.)Benth.; Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.)Benth.; Piliostigma malabaricum var. acidum (Korth.)de Wit.;

Plant Common Name : Ambotha K-Chapha, Malabar Bauhinia • Assamese: kotra • Bengali: karmai • Garo: bakbakhol, beolphiu, migong thak • Hindi: amli, Amlosa • Kannada: basavanapaada, Mandara, Kudugulu, Cheppura • Konkani: korat • Malayalam: aarampuli • Marathi: amli, koral • Nepali: tanki • Oriya: gumbati • Sanskrit: amlapatrah, ashmantaka, ashmayukta, yamalapatrah • Tamil: malai-y-atti, puli-y-atti, Vellathi, Mantharai • Telugu: Pedda-ari, Pul-ari,Puli chinta, Pul-dondra

Plant Family : Fabaceae

Description : Deciduous trees, to 15 m high, bark 10-15 mm thick, brown, rough, shallow with vertical and horizontal furrows, fibrous, exfoliating in long strips; blaze red, concentrically striated. Leaves simple, bilobed, alternate; stipules small, free, lateral, cauducous; petiole 25-30 mm long, slender, glabrous, swollen at tip and base; lamina 5-10 x 7-12.5 cm, broader than long, suborbicular, base cordate, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous above, slightly glaucous beneath, coriaceous; 9-11 nerves from the base, palmate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 6-8 mm across, cream coloured, in axillary corymbs; pedicels slender, upto 2.5 cm; calyx tube long, thin, pubescent with 5 short lobes; petals 5, oblong; stamens 10, all fertile, alternate ones short; anthers versatile; ovary half inferior, stipitate; ovules many; style filiform; stigma peltate. Fruit a pod, 25-30 x 1.8-2.5 cm, straight, flattened, beaked, longitudinally striate, glabrous; seeds 20-30, oblong.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Being commonly prescribed to treat cough, gout, glandular swellings and goiter, haemorrhage, leprosy, menorrhagia, scrofula, urinary disorders, wasting diseases, worm infestations and wounds and for liver disorders.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: 6,8-di-C-methylkaempferol 3-methyl ether; kaempferol; afzelin; quercetin; isoquercitrin; quercitrin; hyperoside;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2):

Quercetin;

Kaempferol;

Plant's Current Status : Common

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18414979 - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Malabar%20Bauhinia.html - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/228890 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319562X17301924

Reference : ~ 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 : Equisetopsida
Subclass : Rosidae
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Bauhinia L. - bauhinia
Species : Bauhinia malabarica Roxb.

Bauhinia malabarica Roxb.