Bauhinia purpurea L. - butterfly tree
Bauhinia purpurea L. - butterfly tree
Bauhinia purpurea L. - butterfly tree
Bauhinia purpurea L. - butterfly tree
Bauhinia purpurea L. - butterfly tree
Bauhinia purpurea L. - butterfly tree
MT037 : Bauhinia purpurea L.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 166 |
| Synonym | : | Bauhinia castrata Blanco.;
Bauhinia coromandeliana DC.;
Bauhinia platyphylla Span.;
Bauhinia purpurea var. corneri De Wit.;
Bauhinia purpurea var. violacea De Wit.;
Bauhinia rosea Corner.;
Bauhinia triandra Roxb.;
Bauhinia violacea Corner.;
Caspareopsis purpurea (L.)Pittier.;
Phanera purpurea (L.)Benth.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Kachnar,K-Koilari, Butterfly tree, Pink butterfly tree, Purple bauhinia, Purple butterfly tree, Purple orchid tree • Hindi: Kaniar • Tamil: Nilattiruvatti • Bengali: Koiral • Assamese: Og-yok • Marathi: Rakta kanchan • Kannada: Devakanchan, Basavana Paada • Tangkhul: Haochokwon |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae |
| Description | : | Small trees with warty branchlets. Leaflets connate about half way, lobed, sometimes lobes overlapping, thin coriaceous, base subcordate, margin entire.Flowers in axillary or terminal recemes or paniculate. Calyx-tube apex 2-cleft. Petals rose to pink, obovate, narrow at base, obtuse. Stamens 3-5. Pods oblong, compressed, many seeded. Bark smooth and fibrous, Leaves deeply divided, similar to a cow's foot. Flowers pink, fragrant. Fruit a flat bean like,woody, coils after splitting open. Flowering: peak in September. Fruiting: Throughout the year |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Leaf vegetable; The root is carminative. The flowers are laxative. The bark, roots and flowers, when mixed with rice-water, are used in poultice form as a maturant. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: bioflavonoid; bibenzyls; dibenzoxepins; lutein; beta-sitosterol; isoquercitin; astragalin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Beta-sitosterol; Lutein; |
| 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/Purple%20Orchid%20Tree.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/264729
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Bauhinia%20purpurea |
| 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 : ~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 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 | : Bauhinia L. - bauhinia |
| Species | : Bauhinia purpurea L. - butterfly tree |