| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 373 |
| Synonym | : | Stereospermum colais (Buch.-Ham. ex Dillw.) D. L. Mabberley;
Bignonia caudata DC.;
Bignonia caudata Miq. ex C.B.Clarke.;
Bignonia colais Buch.-Ham. ex Dillwyn.;
Bignonia suaveolens Roxb.;
Bignonia tetragona Wall. ex DC.;
Dipterosperma personatum Hassk.;
Stereospermum caudatum (DC.) Miq.;
Stereospermum colais var. puberula (Dop) D.D.Tao.;
Stereospermum hasskarlii Zoll. & Moritzi.;
Stereospermum tetragonum DC.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Padar, Yellow Snake Tree, Trumpet flower tree • Hindi: paral, paroli • Manipuri: Missi • Marathi: padal • Tamil: ampu, ampuvakini, patalam, patiri, punkali • Malayalam: karingazha, paathiri, puuppaathiri • Telugu: ambuvasini, kaligottu, padiri, patala • Kannada: kalaadri, paadari • Bengali: parul • Oriya: pamphunia • Konkani: paadal • Urdu: paral • Assamese: Dhapatita, Parroli • Gujarati: padeli • Sanskrit: patala • Mizo: zinghal |
| Plant Family | : | Bignoniaceae |
| Description | : | Large deciduous trees, often buttressed, up to 25 m tall. Bark fissured, dark brown; blaze cream. Branchlets terete, glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves compound, imparipinnate, opposite, decussate, to 60 cm long; rachis 6-16.5 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; leaflets 3-5 pairs, opposite with odd terminal one; petiolule 0.8-1.5 cm long, canaliculate; lamina 5-15 x 2.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, apex caudate (acumen 1.5-4 cm long) base cuneate to asymmetric, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary nerves 8-10 pairs gradually curved; tertiary nerves weakly percurrent. Inflorescence lax terminal panicles, flowers brownish purple, yellow within, petals wooly. Capsule, 4-angled, contorted, to 40 cm long; seeds many, winged. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Koktu, Chipi, Bori, Dhargad, Boripati, Butida, Khandakheda, Semadoh |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Digestive, Sexual problems, diuretic, Lithotropic, expectorant, cardio tonic and aphrodisiac, anti-inflammatory, anti
bacterial, febrifuge, tonic, anti emetic, anti pyretic, rheumatalgia, malarial fever, wound, asthma and cough. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Sterequinone A;
Sterequinone B;
Sterequinone C;
Sterequinone D
Sterequinone E; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/18460
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Yellow%20Snake%20Tree.html
- http://globalresearchonline.net/journalcontents/v21_1/53.pdf |
| Reference | : | ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697 ~ S Prema, A. Saraswathi, Chitra Krishnan and Vinoth Gopal; "A review on Stereospermum colais Mabb: Bignoniaceae"; International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research (2013); 21(1): 314-317 PMID : ~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151 ~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320 ~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Lamiales |
| Family | : Bignoniaceae |
| Genus | : Stereospermum |
| Species | : Stereospermum personatum (Hassk.) Chatterjee |
