Lagerstroemia parviflora Roxb.
Lagerstroemia parviflora Roxb.
Lagerstroemia parviflora Roxb.
Lagerstroemia parviflora Roxb.
Lagerstroemia parviflora Roxb.
MT055 : Lagerstroemia parviflora Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 199 |
| Synonym | : | Fatioa napaulensis DC.;
Lagerstroemia fatioa Bl.;
Lagerstroemia lanceolata Wight & Arn.;
Lagerstroemia parvifolia subsp. napaulensis (DC.) Koehne.;
Murtughas parviflora Kuntze.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Lendia,K-Chekre, Small Flowered Crape Myrtle • Assamese: Sida, Dhauli • Garo: Bolsidai, Sidai, Bol sidai • Hindi: Dhaura, Lendia, Bakli, Sidi • Kannada: Chanangi, Ventaku, Bhutara • Khasi: Dieng lang sing • Malayalam: Ventekku, Cheemangi • Marathi: Lende, Bondga, Bondara • Nepali: Bot Dhaiyanro • Oriya: Solokha • Tamil: Chenangi, Chinnanchi, Kaccaikkattai, • Telugu: Chinangi, Chennangi |
| Plant Family | : | Lythraceae |
| Description | : | Deciduous trees, to 15 m high; bark dark brown or greyish-black, vertically furrrowed, exfoliating in long, thin flakes; blaze dull yellow. Leaves simple, opposite; stipules intrapetiolar, deciduous; petiole to 5 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 3.5-7.5 x 2-3 cm, elliptic, obovate-elliptic or oblong, base round or acute, apex acute, acuminate or obtuse-retuse, margin entire, glabrous or shortly pubescent beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent; intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 2 mm across, white, fragrant, in lax axillary panicles; calyx tube 7 mm, campanulate, with a ring inside, smooth with out; lobes 6, to 3 mm, appressed to the capsule in fruit; petals 6, to 6 mm, ovate-suborbicular; claw 4 mm; stamens many, inserted near the base of the calyx tube, exserted; filaments to 1 cm; anthers 0.5 mm; ovary 2.5 mm, half inferior, sessile, glabrous, 4-6-celled, ovules many; style to 1 cm, curved; stigma capitate. Fruit a capsule, 3 x 1.5 cm, 3-4 valved, ovoid, brown; seeds many; wing terminal with a thick curved back. Flowering: April-June. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Belkund, Dolar, Koktu, Jarida, Chunkali, Butida, Marida |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | old leaves and mature fruit are used in traditional medicine for reducing glucose in blood. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: corosolic acid; lager-stroemin; flosin B; reginin A; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Corosolic 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/31495
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Small%20Flowered%20Crape%20Myrtle.html
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Lagerstroemia+parviflora |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Myrtales |
| Family | : Lythraceae - Loosestrife family |
| Genus | : Lagerstroemia |
| Species | : Lagerstroemia parviflora Roxb. |