Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT013 : Aegle marmelos L.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 70

Synonym : Aegle marmelos var. mahurensis B.R. Zate.; Belou marmelos (L.) Lyons.; Bilacus marmelos (L.) Kuntze.; Crateva marmelos L.; Feronia pellucida Roth.;

Plant Common Name : Bel, K-Bela. Sarawan, G-Mahaka, Bel, Beli fruit, Bengal quince, Stone apple, Wood apple • Hindi: Bel • Manipuri: Heirikhagok • Marathi: Maredu • Tamil: Vilvam • Malayalam: Vilvam • Telugu: Sandiliyamu • Kannada: Bilvapatre • Bengali: Bel • Konkani: Bello • Urdu: Bel • Assamese: Bel • Gujarati: Bili • Sanskrit: Adhararuha, Sivadrumah, Tripatra

Plant Family : Rutaceae

Description : Tree to 12 m tall, deciduous; branchlets cylindric, sometimes slightly angled, glabrous; spines axillary, solitary or paired, straight, stout and sharp. Leaves alternate-3-foliolate, sometimes 5-foliolate, dimorphic; petioles terete to 6 cm long, glabrous or puberulous when young; leaflets subsessile, ovate-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, oblique at base, shallowly crenate-serrate at margin, tapering at apex, membranous, pellucid-punctate, pale green. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, racemose or corymbose, few-flowered, 4-5 cm long; peduncles densely puberulent; pedicels 2-4 mm long. Flowers bisexual, greenish white or yellow, fragrant. Calyx cupular, finely puberulent, caducous; lobes 4 or 5, 3-angled. Petals 5, ovate-oblong, subequal, ca 12 x 6 mm, spreading, glabrous, fleshy and white. Stamens numerous in 2 or 3 series, free or basally subconnate, unequal; filaments subulate, ca 7 mm long, glandular; anthers linear-oblong, ca 8 mm long. Disc glabrous, greenish. Ovary ovoid, 4-5 mm long, faintly ridged, 10-loculed; ovules many, 2-seriate; style short; stigma oblong, longitudinally grooved. Berries ovoid, 6-10 cm across, woody, yellowish, many seeded; seeds oblong and flat.

Plant Location in Melghat : Dhargad, Kelpani, however frequent in Rangjubeli

Medicinal Use / Activity : Mulvyadh, Kawil, Pitta The different parts of Bael are used for various therapeutic purposes, such as for treatment of Asthma, Anaemia, Fractures, Healing of Wounds, Swollen Joints, High Blood Pressure, Jaundice, Diarrhea Healthy Mind and Brain Typhoid Troubles during Pregnancy. Ant diabetic Activity, Hepatoprotective activity, Antimicrobial Activity, Analgesic anti-inflammatory, & anti-pyretic Activity, anti-fungal Activity, Anti-cancer Activity (Wal et al., 2015), Radioprotective Activity, Antispermatogenic Activity, anti-ulcer Activity, Anti thyroid Activity, Toxicity Studies and antiDiarrheal. The dried pulp is astringent. It reduces irritation in the digestive tract and is an excellent remedy in cases of Diarrhea and dysentery. A decoction of the astringent unripe fruit, combined with fennel and ginger, is prescribed in cases of haemorrhoids.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Skimmianine; Aegeline; Lupeol; Cineol; Citral; Citronella; Cuminaldehyde; Eugenol; Marmesinine; Fagarine; Marmin; Marmelosin; Luvangetin; Aurapten; Psoralen; Marmelide; Tannin; furocoumarins; xanthotoxol; alloimperatorin; Aeglin; Rutin; Gamma-sitosterol; Beta-sitosterol; Flavone; Cineol; Glycoside; O-isopentenyl; Halfordiol; Marmeline; Citronellal; Cuminaldehyde phenylethyl cinnamamides; Marmesinin; Marmelosin; Luvangetin; Aurapten; Marmelide; Fagarine; Marmin; D-limonene; A-D-phellandrene; Cineol; P-cyrnene; Cumin aldehyde; Aeglemarmelosine;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (10):

Lupeol;

Beta-sitosterol;

Rutin;

Flavone;

D-Limonene;

Limonene;

Eugenol;

Citral;

Citronellal;

Psoralen;

Plant's Current Status : Common

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Bel.html - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/228621 - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Aegle+marmelos

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Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Rosidae
Order : Sapindales
Family : Rutaceae - Rue family
Genus : Aegle Corr. Serr. - aegle
Species : Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. Serr.

Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. Serr.
Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. Serr.
Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. Serr.
Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. Serr.