Dalbergia volubilis Roxb.
Dalbergia volubilis Roxb.
MC061 : Dalbergia volubilis Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Climbers |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Dalbergia confertiflora; Dalbergia purpurea; Dalbergia stipulacea; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Climbing Dalbergia, bastard rosewood climber • Assamese: bar medeluwaa • Gujarati: nilasoti • Hindi: bankhara, bhatia • Kannada: mardiball • Konkani: alyo • Malayalam: vallivitti • Marathi: alai, munganvel • Oriya: nubardi • Tamil: punali-k-koti • Telugu: bandigurigindza |
| Plant Family | : | FABOIDEAE |
| Description | : | a large woody climbing shrub or climber. Branches are smooth, twining or twisted into spiral hooks. Leaves are compound, 10-15 cm long. Leaflets are 11-13, thickly leathery, 2.5-5 cm long, quite variable in shape, oblong, obovate-oblong to ovate-elliptic. Flowers are small, pale blue, in copious panicles, 20-30 cm long, in leaf axils and at branch ends. Pods are 5-7 cm long, linear-oblong, obtuse. Flowering: January-May. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The juice of the leaves is applied to aphthae and used as a gargle in sore throat. The root juice with cumin and sugar is given in gonorrhea. The plant is used for gastritis in Khagrachari. A glycosidic substance from leaves showed anti-inflammatory and antiarthritic activities and a new level of general toxicity. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Friedlein; Tectorigenin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Tectorigenin; |
| 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 : ~ Rabinarayan Acharya, Switu V Jani, CR Harisha and Vinay J Shukla; "Phytopharmacognostical investigations on root and stem of Dalbergia volubilis Roxb.: An extrapharmacopoeial plant of Ayurveda"; AYU (2018); 39: 151-158 PMID : ~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Dalbergia volubilis Roxb. |
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| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Equisetopsida |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Fabales |
| Family | : Fabaceae |
| Genus | : Dalbergia |
| Species | : Dalbergia volubilis Roxb. |