Syzygium heyneanum (Duthie) Wall. ex Gamble
Syzygium heyneanum (Duthie) Wall. ex Gamble
Syzygium heyneanum (Duthie) Wall. ex Gamble
Syzygium heyneanum (Duthie) Wall. ex Gamble
Syzygium heyneanum (Duthie) Wall. ex Gamble
MT053 : Syzygium heyneanum (Duthie) Wall. ex Gamble
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 195 |
| Synonym | : | Eugenia heyneana.;
Eugenia heyneana Duthie.;
Eugenia salicifolia Wt.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Jamun, K-Gambu, Kath Jamun • Hindi: Kathjamun • Marathi: Pan Jambhul • Telugu: Chinna Neredu • Kannada: Pannerale, Simpi nerale |
| Plant Family | : | Myrtaceae |
| Description | : | Small trees up to 10 m tall. Bark rough, greyish brown, irregularly flaky; blaze reddish brown. Young branchlets quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole up to 1 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina up to 10 x 2.5 cm, narrow oblong, oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse or acute with blunt tip, base attenuate, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, coriaceous, shining above, glabrous beneath; midrib slightly canaliculate above; intramarginal nerve present; secondary nerves many, parallel, slender; tertiary nerves admedialy ramified. Inflorescence cymes, usually lateral, from the scars of fallen leaves, rarely axillary, flowers white, sessile or shortly pediceled. Berry, oblong-ellipsoid, ca. 1 cm long, crowned by calyx lobes. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Chikhaldara and Semadoh range |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Bark paste mixed with whey is given in diarrhoea and dysentery twice a day for two days. Bark juice mixed with rice water is given once a day for 21 days for the treatment of leucorrhoea. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Not Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/18989
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Kath%20Jamun.html |
| Reference | : | ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ RLS Sikarwar, Bharat Pathak & Anil Jaiswal; "Some unique ethnomedicinal perceptions of tribal communities of Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2008); 7(4): 613-617 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 : ~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Myrtales |
| Family | : Myrtaceae - Myrtle family |
| Genus | : Syzygium |
| Species | : Syzygium heyneanum (Duthie) Wall. ex Gamble |