Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT031 : Dalbergia lanceolaria L.f.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 124

Synonym : Amerimnon lanceolarium (L.f.) Kuntze; Dalbergia arborea B.Heyne; Dalbergia frondosa DC.; Dalbergia lanceolaria subsp. lanceolaria.;

Plant Common Name : Dhobin,K-Phassi,G-Padri, bastard rose wood • Assamese: meda-luwa, mouhit • Bengali: chakemdia • Coorgi: hasarugoni, shweta beete • Gujarati: tantoshi • Hindi: hardi, takoli • Kannada: bili beete • Kolami: piri • Malayalam: kannan vaaka, velliitti • Marathi: dondus. phanshi • Mundari: birmunga, keadcadlomdaru • Oriya: dodilo • Rajasthani: barbat, passi • Sanskrit: goraksha • Santal: chapot siris • Tamil: erikai, kattuppachalai • Telugu: kondapachari, tellavirugudu • Urdu: dandous

Plant Family : Fabaceae

Description : Large trees. Leaves 15-25 cm long; leaflets 13 or 15, to 4 x 2 cm, oblong-elliptic, apex emarginate, slightly coriaceous; petiole to 2 cm; petiolule 3-5 mm, stipules small, deciduous. Panicles terminal and axillary, 5-15 cm long. Pod 8 x 2 cm, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, stipitate, coriaceous. acute at both ends; seeds 1-3. A tall handsome deciduous tree with drooping branches. Leaves imparipinnate, 7.5-18 cm long; leaflets 2-3.8 cm long, elliptic or oblong, obtuse. Flowers small, in copious axillary and terminal panicles. Pods 3.8-5 cm long, thin flexible. Bark pale grey with greenish yellow tinge. Leaf compound, 17 leaflets. Flower lilac. Fruit thin, flat pod, tapering ends.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : The bark is used ad astringent, analgesic and anti-Diarrheal. Seeds possesses good anti-inflammatory properties. Seed oil is used in rheumatism. The bark is used in dyspepsia.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: lanceolarin; alpha-Baptigenin;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0):

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31239 - http://tropical.theferns.info/image.php?id=Dalbergia+lanceolaria - http://www.mpbd.info/plants/dalbergia_lanceolaria.php

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
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Equisetopsida
Subclass :
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Dalbergia
Species : Dalbergia lanceolaria paniculata (Roxb.)Thoth.

Dalbergia lanceolaria paniculata (Roxb.)Thoth.
Dalbergia lanceolaria paniculata (Roxb.)Thoth.
Dalbergia lanceolaria paniculata (Roxb.)Thoth.
Dalbergia lanceolaria paniculata (Roxb.)Thoth.