Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT039 : Bauhinia variegata L.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 169

Synonym : Bauhinia chinensis (DC.)Vogel.; Bauhinia decora Uribe.; Bauhinia variegata var. candida (Aiton)Corner.; Bauhinia variegata var. chinensis DC.; Phanera variegata (L.)Benth.;

Plant Common Name : Kachnar, K-Champa, Kachnar, Orchid Tree, Varigated Bauhinia • Hindi: Kachnar • Manipuri: Chingthrao • Marathi: kanaraj, kavidara, kanchan, rakta-kanchan • Malayalam: chovanna-mandaru, chuvanna-mandaram • Telugu: Bodanta, Daevakanchanamu • Kannada: arisinantige, ayata, bilikanjivala, irkubalitu • Bengali: Raktakanchan • Oriya: vau-favang, vaube, kachan • Khasi: Dieng long, Dieng tharlong • Assamese: Kotora, Kurol • Mizo: Vau-favang, Vaube, Vaufawang • Sanskrit: Ashmantaka, asphota, Chamarika, Chamari • Nepali: Koiraalo

Plant Family : Caesalpiniaceae / Fabaceae / Leguminosae

Description : Trees, 5-10m. Leaves 6-14?5-13cm, cleft through about a quarter or third the length, glaucous beneath, lobes rounded, base deeply cordate; petioles 2.5-3.5cm. Flowers 6-8cm cross, variegated, white, in terminal racemes. Calyx pubescent. Corolla 4-6cm, white. Pods 20-30?2-3cm, sub-falcate. A small tree; leaves are simple, deeply cordate, dull green, Found throughout the province upto 2000 ft. Often cultivated for its beautiful flower. Flowers large, white, pink or purple. Pods 6 - 10 inch. long, hard, flat. Bark grey, cracked. Leaves with two lobes, similar to a cow's foot. Flowers purple with distinct dorsal petal. Fruit a flat pod.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Mulvyadh, Anti-cancer(Tu et al., 2016).Paste of roots with rice is applied over wound. Decoction of buds is given twice a day in having blood in cough. It is used to stop the excess bleeding during menses.Dried flower powder with honey given in acidity. The bark is alterative, anthelmintic, astringent and tonic. The juice of the bark is used in the treatment of amoebic dysentery, Diarrhea and other stomach disorders. A paste of the bark is useful in the treatment of cuts and wounds, skin diseases, scrofula and ulcers. The dried buds are used in the treatment of piles, dysentery, Diarrhea and worms. The juice of the flowers is used to treat Diarrhea, dysentery and other stomach disorders. The root is used as an anti-dote to snake poison. A decoction of the root is used to treat dyspepsia.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: beta-sitosterol; lupeol; Kaempferol; Galactoside; ombuin; kaempferol 7,4’-dimethylether-3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside; kaempferol 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside; isorhamnetin 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside; hesperidin; oxepin; quercitroside; isoquercitroside; rutoside; myricetol glycoside; kaempferol glycoside; Bauhinione; cynidin-3-glucoside; malvidin-3-glucoside; malvidin-3-diglucoside; peonidin-3-glucoside; peonidin-3-diglucoside; kaempferol-3-galactoside; kaempferol-3-rhamnoglucoside; myristic acid; palmitic acid; stearic acid; lignoceric acid; behenic acid; arachidic acid; oleic acid; linoleic acid;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (11):

Lupeol;

Beta-sitosterol;

Kaempferol;

Hesperidin;

Isorhamnetin;

Isorhamnetin 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside;

Kaempferol 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside;

Palmitic acid;

Malvidin;

Malvidin-3-glucoside;

Peonidin;

Plant's Current Status : Common

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Kachnar.html - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Bauhinia+variegata - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/264732 - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307639099

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 : Bauhinia L. - bauhinia
Species : Bauhinia variegata L. - mountain ebony

Bauhinia variegata L. - mountain ebony
Bauhinia variegata L. - mountain ebony
Bauhinia variegata L. - mountain ebony
Bauhinia variegata L. - mountain ebony