Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT136 : Stereospermum chelonoides (L. fil.) DC.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Synonym : Bignonia chelonoides L. fil.; Bignonia gratissima K.D.Koenig ex DC.; Bignonia suaveolens Roxb.; Heterophragma chelonoides (L. fil.) Dalzell & A.Gibson; Heterophragma suaveolens (Roxb.) Dalzell & A.Gibson; Hieranthes fragrans Raf.; Spathodea suaveolens (Roxb.) Benth. & Hook. fil.; Stereospermum suaveolens (Roxb.) DC.; Tecoma suaveolens (Roxb.) G.Don

Plant Common Name : Fragrant Padri Tree • Assamese: parhori, paroli, ser phang • Garo: bolsel • Hindi: padeli • Kannada: adri, bili paadri, giri, hadari • Khasi: dieng sir • Malayalam: kacasthali, karannavu, karanyavu • Marathi: kalagori, kalgari, paadal • Mizo: zinghal • Naga: Ing-nge-ching • Nepali: Kuber bacha, jinghal, parhori • Sanskrit: kastapatala, patala • Tamil: ambuvagina, padiri, pathiriver, pumbadiri • Telugu: ambuvaasini, gallugudu, goddalipukusu, isakarasi

Plant Family : BIGNONIACEAE

Description : Tree is a large deciduous tree, 10-20 m tall, with velvet-hairy branches. Leaves are compound, 1-2 ft long, with 3-4 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets are 7-15 cm long, broadly elliptic, long-pointed. velvety on the underside, rounded and unequal at base, with 6-8 nerves, short-stalked. Fragrant flowers are borne in large lax panicles. They are 10-20 cm long, pinkish. Sepal cup is bell-shaped, 1 cm long, hairy, 3-5 lobed. Stamens are 4, remaining inside the flower-tube. Seed-pod is 1-2 ft long, cylindric, ribbed, rough.

Plant Location in Melghat :

Medicinal Use / Activity : An infusion of the pleasant tasting root, as well as the fragrant flowers, is used as a cooling drink in the treatment of fevers. The juice of the bark is used to treat indigestion.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: 1-Hexacosanol; 1-Triacontanol; Dehydrotectol; lapachol; Octadecanoate; oleic acid; palmitic acid; Scutellarein; Xyloidone;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2):

Scutellarein;

Palmitic 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 :

~ 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 : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Lamiales
Order :
Family : Bignoniaceae
Genus : Stereospermum
Species : Stereospermum chelonoides (L. fil.) DC.

Stereospermum chelonoides (L. fil.) DC.
Stereospermum chelonoides (L. fil.) DC.