Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT065 : Holarrhena antidysenterica (L.) Wall. ex A. DC.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 292

Synonym : Holarrhena pubescens;

Plant Common Name : Kuda, K-Kurakatto, Indrajao • Assamese: dhulkari, dudkhuri • Bengali: kurchi, kutaja • Gujarati: kadavo indrajav • Hindi: karva indrajau, kutaja • Kannada: koodsaloo, korchie • Kashmiri: andusurun • Konkani: kudo • Malayalam: kutakappaala • Marathi: indrajav, kutaja, pandhra kuda • Punjabi: keor, kewar • Oriya: kherwa, korwa, kurwa, pitakorwa • Sanskrit: indrayava, kutaja, sakraparyaaya, sakraasana, vatsaka • Tamil: kirimllikai, kutaca-p-palai, mlaimllikai • Telugu: girimallika, kodisepala, kolamukku, kondamalle, kutajamu

Plant Family : Apocynaceae

Description : A small deciduous tree. Leaves: elliptic, oblong, ovate or ovate-oblong, nerves 10-14 pairs, strong arched. Flowers: borne in corymbose cymes, white, fragrant. Sepals acuminate. Corolla-tube slender, lobes oblong. Fruits: follicles, slender, parallel, terete, usually with long white spots. Seeds: narrowly linear-oblong, glabrous. Flowers from April-July and fruits from August-October.

Plant Location in Melghat : Scattered throughout

Medicinal Use / Activity : Antibiotic, useful in anaemia, colic pain, Diarrhea, haematuria, menorrhagia, obstetric conditions, spermatorrhoea, splenomegaly. Seeds: decoction beneficial in chronic dysentery and in bleeding piles. Powdered seeds mixed with honey given in chronic chest affection, asthma and colic pain. Leaves: used in chronic bronchitis. Bark: useful in colitis, stomachic and tonic.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Conessidine; conessimine;isoconessimine; sonessine; conimine; holadiene; holarrhenine; conamine; conarrhimine; holarrhine; kurchine; lettocine; norconessine; Linoceric acid; linolenic acid; linoleic acid; oleic acid; palmitic acid; stearic acid;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1):

Palmitic acid;

Plant's Current Status : Rare, Endemic

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://bioinfo.bisr.res.in/project/domap/plant_details.php?plantid=0084 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indrajao.html - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/246585 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628520/

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Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Gentianales
Family : Apocynaceae
Genus : Holarrhena
Species : Holarrhena antidysenterica (L.) Wall. ex A. DC.

Holarrhena antidysenterica (L.) Wall. ex A. DC.