Litsea monopetala (Roxb. ex Baker) Pers.
MT098 : Litsea monopetala (Roxb. ex Baker) Pers
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Litsea apetala Pers.;
Litsea hexantha Siebold ex Bl.;
Litsea polyantha Juss.;
Malapoenna monopetala (Roxb. ex Baker) Kuntze;
Tetranthera alnoides Miq.;
Tetranthera fruticosa Buch.-Ham. ex Meisn.;
Tetranthera hexantha Sieber ex Meisn.;
Tetranthera hirana Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.;
Tetranthera macrophylla Wall.;
Tetranthera monopetala Roxb. ex Baker;
Tetranthera quadriflora Roxb.;
Tetranthera verticillata Buch.-Ham. ex Meisn.;
Tetranthera villosa Boj.;
Tomex monopetala (Roxb. ex Baker) Hoffmgg.;
Tomex pubescens Willd. ex Meisn.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Meda • Hindi: Meda, Gwa, Singraf, Katmarra, Jangli-rai-am • Manipuri: Tumitla • Marathi: ranamba • Tamil: maidalagadil, muchaippeyetti, picinpattai • Mizo: nauthak • Telugu: chiru mamidi, meda, chiru maamidi, naara, narachettu, naramaamidi • Kannada: gajapippali, hemmudi, kainji • Bengali: bara-kukurchita • Khasi: dieng soh phohskei, dieng sohtyllap • Nepali: Kutmira • Assamese: muga, sualu • Nepali: Katamero, Kutamero, Raatamaati |
| Plant Family | : | Lauraceae |
| Description | : | A small tree up to 18 m tall, with a straight to crooked trunk, up to 60 cm in diameter. Bark is longitudinally fissured, dark greyish, inner bark brown mottled. Alternately arranged elliptic leaves, 4.5-17 cm x 2.5-10 cm, are pointed or blunt, smooth above, sparsely hairy below. The midrib is sunken above, with 6-13 pairs of secondary veins which are sunken above. Leaf stalk is about 1-2.5 cm long. Yellow flowers are borne in stalked umbellets in short racemes, with 6 tepals and 9-12 stamens. Fruit is oblong to ellipsoid, 0.7-1.2 cm long, seated on a small flat perianth cup. Flowering: March-May. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | found along streams in Semadoh region |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Seeds contain an oil which is used medicinally as ointments for rheumatism manufacturing candle in India.
Bark is used as astringent and in Diarrhea. The leaves are used as a topical medicine for the treatment of arthritis. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Loperamide ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | |
| Reference | : | ~ 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 : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Laurales |
| Family | : Lauraceae |
| Genus | : Litsea |
| Species | : Litsea monopetala (Roxb. ex Baker) Pers. |