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