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 |
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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. |