Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT069 : Cordia macleodii Hook. fil. & Thoms.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 310

Synonym : Gerascanthus macleodii (Hook. fil. & Thoms.) A. Borhidi.; Hemigymnia macleodii (Hook. fil. & Thoms.) Griff.; Lithocardium macleodii (Hook. fil. & Thoms.) Kuntze.;

Plant Common Name : Dahipalas, K- Kassamar,

Plant Family : Boraginaceae

Description : A polygamous tree, 6-12 m tall. Young shoots and branchlets brownish-white tomentose. Leaves 6-18 x 5-16 cm, broadly cordate-ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, margin subentire, ± undulate, nerves usually 3, impressed above, prominent on undersurface. Undersurface of a light colour, tomentose with brownish-yellow hairs. Petiole 2-3.5 cm long. Flowers laterally disposed in particulate cymes, white with yellow throat. Calyx 8 mm long, ribbed, tomentose, 6-lobed, accrescent fruit. Corolla lobes ligulate-obtuse. Filaments exserted, base hairy. Drupe up to 22 mm long, ovoid, acute, basal portion surrounded by the ± cupular calyx. Fl. Per.: March-April.

Plant Location in Melghat : In Dabhya, Dolar Chipi, Koktu, Belkund

Medicinal Use / Activity : Brain tonic; wound healing, aphrodisiac and Hepatoprotective activities;

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Stigmasterol; Camphesterol; Gallic acid;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2):

Stigmasterol;

Gallic Acid;

Plant's Current Status : Rare

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250084388 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/265741 - http://www.arjournals.org/index.php/ijpm/article/view/2105 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296350/ - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319501096 - http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr_jac/papers/vol9_issue9/Version_2/O0909028385.pdf

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 :

~ 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 :

~ 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 : Boraginales
Family : Boraginaceae - Borage family
Genus : Cordia
Species : Cordia macleodii Hook. fil. & Thoms.

Cordia macleodii Hook. fil. & Thoms.
Cordia macleodii Hook. fil. & Thoms.
Cordia macleodii Hook. fil. & Thoms.