Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT046 : Anogeissus latifolia (Roxb. ex DC.) Wall. ex Beddome

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 188

Synonym :

Plant Common Name : Dhawda, Dhawra, G-Alma, Axle Wood Tree • Hindi: Dhau, Dhoy, Dhaura • Marathi: dhaora, dhamora, dhawda • Tamil: namai, vel-naga-maram, nakam, vakkali, • Malayalam: malakanniram, vellanava, mazhkanjiram • Telugu: shirimanu, sirimanu, vellama, yelama • Kannada: bejjalu, dindala, dindhlu, dindiga • Bengali: dhaoya • Oriya: dhavada • Urdu: Gul-e-dhawa • Sanskrit: Baka, Dhava, dhavah, dhavala, dhurandhara, dridhataru

Plant Family : Combretaceae

Description : Deciduous trees, to 18 m high, bark 10-12 mm thick, surface grey or yellowish-grey, smooth, subverrucose, lenticellate; blaze pinkish-brown; branchlets brown to reddish-brown, drooping, terete, pubescent. Leaves simple, opposite to alternate, estipulate; petiole 5-15 mm, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 2.5-18 x 1.7-9 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, suborbicular, or oblong-obovate, base obtuse, round, cuneate or acute, apex obtuse, emarginate or mucronate, margin entire, glabrous, subcoriaceous; lateral nerves 4-11 paired, pinnate, prominent beneath, arched towards the margin, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 5-6 mm across, pale green or yellow, in axillary aggregated globose heads; peduncle puberulous; pedicel reduced or absent; calyx tube 2 winged, 3-5.5 mm long, produced above the ovary, villous inside, teeth 5, ovate-triangular, to 1 mm long; stamens 10, in 2 series, exserted, 1.5-3 mm long; anthers small; ovary inferior, 1-celled, densely tomentose; ovules 2, pendulous; style 2-3 mm long, thickened at base, villous; stigma simple. Fruit a drupe, 6-8 mm across, greenish-yellow, compressed, puberulous, circular; wings 2, margin entire or slightly undulate, beaked; seed one, obovate.

Plant Location in Melghat : Chipi, Dolar, Jamli etc

Medicinal Use / Activity : Gum as tonic; The plant is used in treating snake bites and scorpion stings.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Gallotannin, corilagin, chebulic, ellagic acid; gallic acid; qunic acid; shikimic acid; m-trigallic acid; Beta-sitosterol; (+)-leucocyanidin; flavellagic acid;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3):

Beta-sitosterol;

Ellagic acid;

Gallic Acid;

Plant's Current Status : Common

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Axle%20Wood%20Tree.html - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Anogeissus+latifolia - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31049 - http://pharmacologyonline.silae.it/files/newsletter/2010/vol2/53.Singh.pdf

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 :

~ Rajendra Prasad Bharti, Abhilasha shrivastava, Jagjeevan Ram Choudhary, Asha Tiwari and N. K. Soni; "Ethno Medicinal Plants used by Tribal Communities in Vindhya region of Rewa and Sidhi District of Madhya Pradesh, India"; IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences (2013); 8(6): 23-28 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Rosidae
Order : Myrtales
Family : Combretaceae - Indian Almond family
Genus : Anogeissus (DC.) Wall. - anogeissus
Species : Anogeissus latifolia (Roxb. ex DC.) Wall. ex Beddome - gum ghatti

Anogeissus latifolia (Roxb. ex DC.) Wall. ex Beddome - gum ghatti
Anogeissus latifolia (Roxb. ex DC.) Wall. ex Beddome - gum ghatti
Anogeissus latifolia (Roxb. ex DC.) Wall. ex Beddome - gum ghatti
Anogeissus latifolia (Roxb. ex DC.) Wall. ex Beddome - gum ghatti