| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | |
| Plant Common Name | : | Whistling Pine, Casuarina, Common Ironwood, Beefwood, Bull-oak • Hindi: Junglisaru • Marathi: Suru • Bengali: Belati-Jhau • Kannada: Kyasurina • Malayalam: Sampirani • Telugu: Saruguda • Urdu: Jahbuko • Konkani: Phiramgi saro • Tamil: Savukku |
| Plant Family | : | CASUARINACEAE |
| Description | : | Trees, 10-30 m tall, monoecious. Bark greyish brown or dark brown. Branchlets 1-1.5 mm in diameter, jointed; internodes 6-8 mm long with 6-8 prominent ridges; nodal leaf-sheaths with 6-(7)- 8 teeth, pale green, united at base into a short tube, free part 0.5-1.0 x 0.3-0.5 mm, glabrous but margins shortly ciliate. Male inflorescence 15-40 mm long, 2-4 mm in diameter, bracts arranged in 10-25 whorls and each whorl having 6-7 bracts with one flower in each bract; bracteoles membranous, ovate, acute, 0.5-1.0 x 0.2 mm, tepals 2, membranous, 0.5-0.8 x 0.5 mm. Filaments exserted, 2.0-2.5 mm long; anthers 2-celled, 1-1.5 mm long, reddish-brown. Female inflorescence in scattered or clustered ovoid-subglobose heads, 4-8 mm long, stalk 2-12 mm long, bracts ± similar to those of male inflorescence; perianth 0, pistil bicarpellary, ovary unilocular with 1-2 acending ovules; stigmas 2-3 mm long, exserted, red. Infructescence globose-oblong, 15-30 x 12-15 mm; 8-9 whorls of paired infructescence valves; 7-8 valves in each whorl, alternating with the valves located in the next whorl, obovate-oblanceolate, acute. Samaras 4-8 mm long, yellowish brown. Fl. Per.: December-March. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Root extracts are used for the treatment of dysentery, Diarrhea and stomach-ache. A decoction of the twigs is used for treating swelling. The fresh bark is astringent. It is used in the treatment of dysentery. The powdered bark is used for treating pimples on the face. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Cupressuflavone; Kaempferol 3,7-diglucoside; quinic acid; shikimic acid; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3): Kaempferol; Flavone; Quinic acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book |
| Reference | : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Hamamelididae |
| Order | : Casuarinales |
| Family | : Casuarinaceae - She-oak family |
| Genus | : Casuarina Rumph. ex L. - sheoak |
| Species | : Casuarina equisetifolia L. - beach sheoak |
