Celastrus paniculatus Willd.
MS026 : Celastrus paniculatus Willd.
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 78 |
| Synonym | : | Celastrus dependens Wall.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Malkangni,Pingvel, Black Oil Plant, celastrus, oriental bittersweet, intellect tree, staff tree • Hindi: malkangani • Marathi: kanguni, malkangoni • Tamil: kuvarikuntal, mannai-k-katti, valuluvai • Malayalam: Polulavam • Telugu: kasara-tige, maneru • Kannada: bhavamga, jotishmati, kariganne, kougilu • Bengali: kijri, malkangani • Oriya: korsana, pengu • Konkani: malkangoni • Urdu: malkanguni • Assamese: Pokitai • Gujarati: malkangana • Sanskrit: alavan, jyotishmati |
| Plant Family | : | Celastraceae |
| Description | : | Large deciduous twining shrubs, stem up to 23 cm in diam.; bark pale brown, rough and cracked, exfoliating in small scales; branchlets pubescent or glabrous, with prominent elliptic lenticels; axillary buds ca. 1-2 mm, triangular. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules lacinate; petioles ca. 6-16 mm long; lamina ca. 5-17 x 2-10 cm, obovate-orbicular, elliptic to ovate-oblong, rounded or acute at base, bluntish or shortly acuminate at apex, crenate-serrulate along margins, glabrous, pubescent beneath, coriaceous; secondary nerves 4-8 pairs. Inflorescences in terminal drooping panicles ca. 15 cm long, pubescent; Flowers ca. 3-4 mm across, pale greenish; Male flowers: ca. 2 mm long, sepals 5-lobed; lobes semi-orbicular, ciliate; petals ca. 3 mm long, oblong to obovate-oblong; stamens ca. 3 mm long; anthers ovoid; ovary sterile, columnar; disc cupular; lobes obscure; Female flowers: sepals, petals and disc as in the male flowers; stamens sterile; ovary globose; style columnar; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule ca. 1-1.3 cm in diam., bright yellow, depressed, globose, 3-valved. Seeds 3-6, ca. 3-5 x 2-4 mm, brownish, smooth, arillate. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Brain tonic, Stomach pain, Rheumatism |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: celastrine; celapanine; celapanigine; celapagine; malangunin; malkanginnol; malkanguniol; paniculatusdiol; pristimerin; beta-amyrin; beta-sitosterol; sesquiterpeniod polyol esters; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Beta-sitosterol; Pristimerin; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229138
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Black%20Oil%20Plant.html
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4484053/ |
| Reference | : | ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 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 | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Celastrales |
| Family | : Celastraceae |
| Genus | : Celastrus |
| Species | : Celastrus paniculatus Willd. |