Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT058 : Gardenia turgida Roxb.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 228

Synonym : Ceriscoides turgida (Roxb.) Tirveng.; Gardenia donia Buch.-Ham. ex Wall., nom. nud.; Gardenia montana Roxb.; Gardenia turgida var. montana (Roxb.) Hook.f.; Randia turgida (Roxb.) Tirveng.;

Plant Common Name : Phetra, Phendra, K-Phurpata, Mountain Gardenia • Malayalam: Karkar, Malankara, Vellakara

Plant Family : Rubiaceae

Description : Armed, deciduous tree to 8 m; spines leaf-bearing. Leaves opposite decussate, dimorphic, of lower branches ovate, 1.5-2.5 x 0.8-1.5 cm, of upper branches 4-9 x 2-5 cm, thick-chartaceous, hispid above, hirsute below, base attenuate, apex acute-apiculate; lateral nerves 8-10, (sub)sessile; stipules intrapetiolar, connate into a sheath. Flowers 5-merous, pedicellate, solitary or in lax cymes, white turning yellow with age; bracteoles lanceolate, free or connate. Calyx ± urceolate, 1.5 cm; lobes 5, triangular, valvate, 1.5 mm. Corolla 5 cm across, salver-form; tube 1.5 cm; lobes 5, obovate, imbricate or twisted to left in bud, 1.5 x 1.5 cm, thin-fleshy. Stamens 5, subsessile, inserted at the throat, between the lobes, included, 6 mm. Ovary turgid, 1 cm, 1-locular; placentae 5; style erect, 0.8 cm; stigma branched, 0.8 cm. Berry globose, turgid, 5 x 4 cm; seeds many, embedded in fleshy pulp; testa smooth.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Roots: indigestion in childern. Fruits: eaten after cooking, used against eye ailments of cattles, pulp pounded and applied to forehead in fever, used as lep in abdominal colic, also used in affections of mammary glands. Plant: various plant parts used in fever, epilepsy, pimples, tubercular fistula, ringworm, haemat, cholera, smallpox, dysen., neuraligia, pleur., pneum., snake bite etc.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: D-mannitol; gardenin A; gardenin B; gardenin E; oleanolic acid; alpha-amyrin; beta-sitosterol; hederagenin; oleanolic acid; gypsogenic acid;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (4):

Beta-sitosterol;

Alpha-amyrin;

Oleanolic Acid;

Hederagenin;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Mountain%20Gardenia.html - http://bioinfo.bisr.res.in/project/domap/plant_details.php?plantid=0032 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/244668

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Gentianales
Family : Rubiaceae - Madder family
Genus : Gardenia
Species : Gardenia turgida Roxb.

Gardenia turgida Roxb.
Gardenia turgida Roxb.
Gardenia turgida Roxb.
Gardenia turgida Roxb.
Gardenia turgida Roxb.