Ailanthus excelsa Roxb
Ailanthus excelsa Roxb
Ailanthus excelsa Roxb
Ailanthus excelsa Roxb
MT014 : Ailanthus excelsa Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 72 |
| Synonym | : | Pongelion excelsum (Roxb.) Pierre.;
Pongelion wighti Van Tiegh.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Maharukh, Adu, Ghoda Neem, Ghoda Karanj, Indian Tree of Heaven, Coramandel ailanto • Hindi: Mahanimb, Maharukh • Marathi: Marukh, Mahrukh, mahanimb • Tamil: Agal, Perumaram, perumaruntu • Malayalam: Mattipongilyam, Peru, Perumaram • Telugu: pedda, peddamandu, peddamanu • Kannada: Bende, dodabevu, dodda • Oriya: mundayigatch • Sanskrit: aralu, araluka, araluvrksa |
| Plant Family | : | Simaroubaceae |
| Description | : | Trees, to 25 m high, bark light greyish-brown, fibrous or glandular, rough. Leaves pari or imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 20-80 cm long, stout, swollen at base, pubescent; leaflets 13-29, subopposite; petiolule 20-50 mm long, slender, pubescent; lamina 9-15 x 4-6 cm, very variable in shape, mostly ovate-lanceolate, base unequal or truncate, apex acute or acuminate, margin irregularly and coarsely dentate, membranous, pubescent; lateral nerves 12-20 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers polygamous, 8 mm across, yellowish, in subterminal panicles, emits foetid smell; male flowers: pedicels long, slender; sepals 5, ovate, pubescent; petals 5, ovate-lanceolate, reflexed; disc 10 lobed; stamens 10, inserted at the base disc; filaments shorter than anthers; anthers oblong; pistillode rudimentary; bisexual flowers: sepals, petals and disc as in male flowers; stamens 2 or 3; ovary 2-5, partite, superior, sparsely hairy, ovule 1 in each cell; style free or connate; stigmas curling. Fruit a samara, 5 x 1.3 cm, prominently veined, oblong, copper red, twisted at base. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Mostly planted on village sites |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Grahi – absorbent, useful in Diarrhea, IBS
Deepana – improves digestion strength
Indicated in –
Krumi – worm infestation
Kushta – skin diseases
Atisara – Diarrhea, dysentery; Ayurvedic medicines with Aralu as ingredient: Dadimavaleha – an effective Ayurvedic medicine for Diarrhea.
Brihat Gangadhara Churna – Herbal powder, used for Diarrhea, low digestion strength etc.
Bark used in India as a powerful fever-cure and tonic. Leaves and bark in good repute as a tonic after labor, and the juice of the leaves and fresh bark employed by the Konkans as a remedy for after-pains. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Malanthine; Beta-sitosterol; Vitexin Excelsin; Glaucarubol; Quassinoids; 1,2,3,4-dihydro Excelsin 3; Glaucarubine; Ailanthinone; Glaucarubinone; Glaucarubolone; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3): Beta-sitosterol; Glaucarubol; Glaucarubolone; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Tree%20of%20Heaven.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31019
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Ailanthus+excelsa |
| Reference | : | ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal; "Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2015); 9(32): 851-862 PMID : ~ 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 : ~ 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 : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Sapindales |
| Family | : Simaroubaceae |
| Genus | : Ailanthus |
| Species | : Ailanthus excelsa Roxb |