Casearia graveolens Dalzell
Casearia graveolens Dalzell
Casearia graveolens Dalzell
MT005 : Casearia graveolens Dalzell
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 18 |
| Synonym | : | Casearia graveolens var. lintsangensis S.Y. Bao;
Casearia hamiltonii Wall.;
Casearia hamiltonii Wall., nom. invalid.;
Casearia macrogyna Turcz.;
Samyda glabra Buch.-Ham.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Pandhari Karai, K-Rivit, Chilla • Hindi: Safed-Karai, Chilla, Phempri • Marathi: Bhokoda, Mori, Pimpari • Malayalam: Anavananni, Anavinga, Cherukannan, Chirakonna • Telugu: Girivudi, Vasanga, Veska, Vaasanga • Kannada: Haniche, Konje, Bokara, Hanise, Killangi • Oriya: Beniman, Jamurdo, Kokra • Nepali: Sano dedri |
| Plant Family | : | Salicaceae |
| Description | : | Trees, 10-15 m tall; terminal buds, twig tips, and branchlets glabrous. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, 5-10 mm, papery, glabrous, early caducous, on young growth leaving a large conspicuous pale brown scar; petiole 1-1.2 cm, glabrous; leaf blade broadly elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 6-15 × 4-8 cm, papery, abaxially glabrous or glabrescent, adaxially glabrous, densely set with irregularly shaped, reddish brown pellucid dots and streaks, in dried material these clearly visible at × 10 mag. without holding leaf up to light, lateral veins 10-14 pairs, arching upward, base rounded or broadly obtuse, margin shallowly serrate, crenate, very rarely repand, apex variable, broadly acute, obtuse or rounded, often contacting gradually or abruptly to a short acumen to ca. 1 cm. Flowers in few- to many flowered axillary glomerules, greenish, fetid. Pedicels 3-6 mm, articulate near base, pubescent with short semispreading hairs, more densely so below articulation; bracts ovate, ca. 2 mm, outermost bracts densely appressed hairy, striate. Sepals 5, ovate to ovate-oblong, ca. 4 mm, outside pubescent, more densely so toward base, or glabrescent, hairs semispreading and short, inside sparsely hairy, margin practically glabrous, not ciliate. Stamens 8; filaments sparsely pubescent, ca. 1.5 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 0.5 mm, connective glabrous. Disk lobes oblong, ca. 1/2 as long as stamen filaments, pubescent throughout, hairs white when dry, long. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm, pubescent in upper half, hairs spreading; style short, hairy in lower part, stigma capitate. Capsule orange-yellow when ripe, dark reddish or blackish brown and strongly longitudinally ribbed when dried, ellipsoid-oblong, ca. 2 cm, fleshy, pericarp densely and shallowly warty, veined, cross-section and inner surface without shiny black vesicles, valves narrowly naviculate in dried state. Seeds several, when dry pale yellowish brown, ovoid, ca. 4 mm, surface smooth, enclosed in a thin, fleshy, partly fimbriate pale yellowish brown aril. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Sep-Nov. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Especially from Chikhaldara ,Dhakna and Semadoh ranges |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | used for Diarrhea, burns, wounds, rashes chest colds and fever. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Graveopenes A; Graveopenes B;
Graveopenes C; Graveopenes D;
Graveopenes E; Graveopenes F;
Graveopenes G; Graveopenes H;
Graveopenes I; Graveopenes J;
Casegravol; Micromelin; Scopoletin; Bergapren; Beta-sitosterol; Chlorohydrins; Bromohydrin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Beta-sitosterol; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242311338
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229092
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Chilla.html
- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/np50027a018 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); 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 | : Magnoliatae |
| Order | : Malpighiales |
| Family | : Salicaceae (Willow family) |
| Genus | : Casearia |
| Species | : Casearia graveolens Dalzell |