Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. - tall albizia
Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. - tall albizia
Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. - tall albizia
Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. - tall albizia
MT045 : Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 184 |
| Synonym | : | Acacia elata Voigt.;
Acacia procera (Roxb.)Willd.;
Acacia procera var. elata (Roxb.)Baker.;
Acacia procera var. roxburghiana E.Fourn.;
Albizia procera var. elata (Roxb.)Baker.;
Albizia procera var. roxburghiana E.Fourn.;
Feuilleea procera (Roxb.)Kuntze.;
Lignum murinum-majus Rumph.;
Mimosa coriaria Blanco.;
Mimosa elata Roxb.;
Mimosa procera Roxb.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Kinhi, White siris, Tall albizia • Hindi: Safed siris • Urdu: Sarapatri sirsi • Assamese: Tantari-asing • Telugu: Tella chinduga • Kannada: Belari • Malayalam: Jalavaka • Marathi: Kinhai • Nepali: Seto Siris, Karaahi |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae |
| Description | : | Deciduous trees; to 30 m high; bark 10-15 mm, thick, surface greenish-yellow, smooth, exfoliation small, irregular; blaze red; branchlets brownish to blackish or yellowish, terete, 3-13 mm thick, silky pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipule free, lateral; rachis 13-30 cm long, slender, pulvinate, puberulous, with a prominent gland near its base; pinnae 2-5 (6) pairs, 9.7-27 cm long, slender, evenly pinnate, opposite, puberulous; leaflets 4-20, opposite, even pinnate, estipellate, petiolule 2-3 mm long; lamina 2.5-5 x 1.8-3 cm, obliquely oblong, obliquely ovate or obliquely oblong-ovate, base unequal, round on the upper side of the midrib and acute on the lower side, apex round or subacute, margin entire, glabrous above, white pilose beneath, with a gland between terminal pairs of leaflets, subcoriaceous, midrib subcentral, slightly towards the distal margin; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-white, in globose heads, forming axillary or terminal panicles; calyx tube narrowly obconic, 2.5-3 x 1.5-2 mm, glabrous, teeth triangular; corolla 5-7 mm long, 5-lobed; lobes oblong-elliptic, puberulous towards apex; stamens many, 8-12 mm long, monadelphous at base, tube longer than the corolla tube; ovary oblong, stipitate, glabrous, style filiform; stigma terminal. Fruit a pod 10-20 x 1.8-2.5 cm, strap-shaped, flat, thin walled, rostrate at apex, glabrous, often glossy, faintly reticulately veined, black, brown or yellow when dry, stalk very short; seeds 5-12, ovate-elliptic, compressed, greenish-brown. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | At higher elevations like Chikhaldara and Vairat Plateaux |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | A decoction of the bark is given for the treatment of rheumatism and haemorrhage. It is also considered useful in treating problems of pregnancy and for stomach-ache.The leaves are poulticed onto ulcers. All parts of the plant are reported to show anti-cancer activity. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: a-spinasterol; hentriacontane; hexacosanol; biochanin A; formononetin; genistein; diadzein; demethylmedicarpin; Beta-sitosterol; proceric acid; procerogenin A; mechaerinic acid; proceric acids; proceranin A; oleanolic acid; a-spinasterol; oleanolic acid; Proceraosides A;
Proceraosides B;
Proceraosides C;
Proceraosides D; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (4): Beta-sitosterol; Biochanin A; Genistein; Oleanolic Acid; |
| 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/228650
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Albizia+procera
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/White%20Siris.html
- http://www.ebbd.info/albizia_procera.html
- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/np970538r |
| 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 - 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 | : Albizia Durazz. - albizia |
| Species | : Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. - tall albizia |