Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT081 : Holoptelea integrifolia Planch.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 475

Synonym : Ulmus integrifolia Roxb.;

Plant Common Name : Chiler, Papra, Indian Elm, entire-leaved elm tree, jungle cork tree, south Indian elm tree • Hindi: chilbil, kanju, papri • Marathi: ainasadada, vavala • Tamil: aya • Malayalam: aaval • Telugu: nali • Bengali: nata karanja • Oriya: dhauranjan • Konkani: vamvlo • Gujarati: charal, charel, kanjo • Sanskrit: chirivilva • Nepali: sano pangro

Plant Family : Ulmaceae

Description : Large deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark 6-8 mm thick, whitish-grey, smooth; blaze yellowish-grey, streaked with light brown; branchlets pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, scarious; petiole 5-10 mm, stout, pubescent; lamina 6-12.5 x 2.5-6.5 cm, ovate-oblong, ovate or elliptic-ovate, base rounded or subcordate, apex acuminate, margin entire, distantly serrate when young, coriaceous, glabrous above, appressed pubescent punctate below; lateral nerves 6-9 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers polygamous, appear before leaves, 5-8 mm across, greenish-purple, in axillary fascicles; tepals 4 or 5, free, anthers pubescent; female flowers with longer pedicels; ovary superior, compressed, long stipitate, 2-winged, 1-celled, ovule 1; style 2 fid. Fruit a samara, 3 cm across, orbicular, wings nerved, glabrous, seed one.

Plant Location in Melghat : Dodhra Khora

Medicinal Use / Activity : The bark and leaves are used for treating oedema, diabetes, leprosy and other skin diseases, intestinal disorders, piles and sprue. A poultice of the bark and leaves is applied topically to treat boils, swellings and rheumatic pains. The bark is used externally as a treatment for rheumatism, ringworm, scabies, ulcers and scorpion stings. The mucilaginous bark is boiled then the juice is squeezed out and applied to rheumatic swellings; the exhausted bark is then powdered and applied over the parts covered by the sticky juice. The seed and a paste of the stem bark is used in treating ringworm. anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, analgesic, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, anti-diabetic, antiDiarrheal, adaptogenic, anti-cancer, wound healing, Hepatoprotective, larvicidal, antiemetic, CNS depressant, and hypolipidemic activities.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Holoptelin-A; Holoptelin-B; friedlin; epifriedlin; Beta-amyrin; stigmasterol; Beta-sitosterol; 1,4-napthalenedione; betulin; betulinic acid; hexacosanol; octacosanol;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (4):

Beta-sitosterol;

Betulinic acid;

Betulin;

Stigmasterol;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31452 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Elm.html - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Holoptelea+integrifolia - https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/401213/ - http://www.apjtb.com/zz/2012s2/130.pdf

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); 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 :

~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Rosales
Family : Ulmaceae - Elm family
Genus : Holoptelea
Species : Holoptelea integrifolia Planch.

Holoptelea integrifolia Planch.
Holoptelea integrifolia Planch.
Holoptelea integrifolia Planch.