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