Dalbergia latifolia Roxb. - Indian rosewood
Dalbergia latifolia Roxb. - Indian rosewood
Dalbergia latifolia Roxb. - Indian rosewood
Dalbergia latifolia Roxb. - Indian rosewood
MT030 : Dalbergia latifolia Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 123 |
| Synonym | : | Amerimnon latifolium (Roxb.)Kuntze.;
Dalbergia emarginata Roxb.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Shisham, Black Rosewood, blackwood tree, Bombay blackwood, East Indian rosewood, Indian blackwood, Indian palisandre, Indian rosewood, Java palisandre, Malabar rosewood, Roseta rosewood • Hindi: kala-shisham, vilayati shisham • Marathi: kalarukh, sisau • Tamil: nukkam, totakatti • Malayalam: iitti, karivittti, viitti • Telugu: iruguducettu • Kannada: beete • Konkani: siso • Sanskrit: shinshapa |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae |
| Description | : | Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark 10-15 mm thick, grey, smooth with short irregular cracks, exfoliating in thin fibrous longitudinal flakes; blaze yellow, turning to yellow-brown. Leaves imparipinnate, rarely 1-foliate, alternate; stipules small, lateral, deciduous; rachis 7.5-20.5 cm, slender, pulvinate, glabrous; leaflets 3-9, alternate, exstipe llate; petiolule upto 10 mm, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 2.5-10 x 2.5-10 cm, orbicular, base acute or very rarely truncate, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, ascending, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, 5-6 mm long, white, in short corymbose panicles from the axils of fallen leaves of previous years shoot; bracteoles small, deciduous; calyx tube campanulate; lobes 5, subequal, upper 2 connate, lateral obtuse, lower acute; petals 5, standard petal obovate, cuneate at base, reflexed, wings 6 x 2.5 mm, clawed, base auricled, keel 6 mm long, hastate, united, clawed; stamens 9, monadelphous; staminal tube 4 mm, split open one side; ovary stipitate, inferior, 5-7 mm, glabrous, 1-celled, ovules 1-few; style slender, incurved, glabrous; stigma capitate. Fruit a pod, 5-7.5 x 1.5-1.8 cm, oblong-lanceolate, tip obtuse, distinctly marked in the place of seeds, but not wrinkled, indehiscent; seeds 1-4, reniform, brown. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Chunkhedi, Jarida |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The bark is used in traditional medicine in India, to treat Diarrhea, indigestion and leprosy, and as a vermifuge. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: (R)-2-methoxy-5-(1-phenyl-2-propenyl)-
2,5-cyclohexadiene-1,4-dione; (S)-2-(1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-propenyl)-5-methoxy-2,5-cyclohexadiene-1,4-dione; hentriacontane; Beta-sitosterols; triacontane; dalbergichromene; lupeol; acetyloleanolic acid; gamma-sitosterol; (R)-latifolin; (R)-4-methoxydalbergione; methyldalbergin; dalbergin; latifolin; dalbeginone; dalatinone; liquiritigenin; a phenanthrene-1,4-quinone; latinone; methoxydalbergione; dimethoxydalbergione; -phenylcoumarin; sisofolin; dalbinol; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (4): Lupeol; Beta-sitosterol; Oleanolic Acid; Liquiritigenin; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | IUCN Red List - Vulnerable |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Black%20Rosewood.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31247
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Dalbergia+latifolia
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/3527600418.mb0213h04e0013
- http://www.mpbd.info/plants/dalbergia_latifolia.php |
| 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 : ~ 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 : ~ Rajendra Prasad Bharti, Abhilasha shrivastava, Jagjeevan Ram Choudhary, Asha Tiwari and N. K. Soni; "Ethno Medicinal Plants used by Tribal Communities in Vindhya region of Rewa and Sidhi District of Madhya Pradesh, India"; IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences (2013); 8(6): 23-28 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Rosidae |
| Order | : Fabales |
| Family | : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family |
| Genus | : Dalbergia L. f. - Indian rosewood |
| Species | : Dalbergia latifolia Roxb. - Indian rosewood |