Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT038 : Bauhinia racemosa Lam.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 167

Synonym : Bauhinia parviflora Vahl.; Piliostigma racemosa (Lam.)Benth.; Piliostigma racemosum (Lam.)Benth.;

Plant Common Name : Bhosa,Apta, K-Bhosai G-Dhondri, Bidi Leaf Tree • Hindi: katmauli, jhinjheri • Marathi: apta, sona • Tamil: atti, tataki • Malayalam: arampaali, kutabuli, malayaththi • Telugu: tella arecettu • Kannada: aapta, aralukadumandara • Bengali: banraji, banraj • Konkani: apto • Urdu: Gul-e-anehnal • Sanskrit: yamalapatrakah, yugmapatra

Plant Family : Fabaceae

Description : Deciduous trees to 10 m high, bark grey to black, rough, thinly scaly, with numerous vertical cracks; blaze pinkish-red, turning brown on exposure. Leaves simple, bilobed, alternate; stipules small, cauducous; petiole 10-33 mm long, slender, pubescent, swollen at base and at tip; leaves 2-5 x 3.5-11 cm, broader than long, ovate-orbicular, base cordate, apex obtuse, bilobed and mucronate at cleft, margin entire, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, coriaceous; 7-9 nerves from the base, palmate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 10-12 mm across, yellowish-white, in terminal and leaf opposed few flowered racemes; bracts and bracteoles 2-3 toothed, minute, pubescent; pedicel 1-2 mm, slender; calyx spathaceous, reflexed, 5-toothed at apex, puberulous; petals 5, 1.5 x 0.2 cm, linear-oblong; stamens 10, all perfect; filaments equal, filiform, pilose at base; anthers versatile; ovary half-inferior, stalked, pubescent, ovules many; style filiform; stigma peltate. Fruit a pod 15-22 x 1.5-2 cm, oblong, blackish-brown, turgid, apex horned indehiscent; seeds 10-20, ovoid.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : digestive; leaves used in the treatment of asthma;

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: lupeol; betulin; beta-sitosterol; tetracyclic 2, 2-dimethyl chroman; kaempferol; quercetin; scopoletin; scopolin; resveratrol;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (6):

Lupeol;

Beta-sitosterol;

Quercetin;

Kaempferol;

Betulin;

Resveratrol;

Plant's Current Status : Common

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://tropical.theferns.info/image.php?id=Bauhinia+racemosa - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31078 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Bidi%20Leaf%20Tree.html - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3122042/ - http://globalresearchonline.net/journalcontents/v32_2/28.pdf

Reference : ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697

~ SA Nirmal, RB Laware, R A Rathi, VV Dhasade, and BS Kuchekar; "Antihistaminic effect of Bauhinia racemosa leaves"; J Young Pharm. (2011); 3(2): 129-131 PMID : 21731358

~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151

~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320

~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 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 :

~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 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 : Rosidae
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Bauhinia L. - bauhinia
Species : Bauhinia racemosa Lam.

Bauhinia racemosa Lam.
Bauhinia racemosa Lam.
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Bauhinia racemosa Lam.