Mitragyna parviflora
Mitragyna parviflora
Mitragyna parviflora
Mitragyna parviflora
MT059 : Mitragyna parvifolia (Roxb.) Korth.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 232 |
| Synonym | : | Nauclea parvifolia Roxb.;
Stephegyne parvifolia (Roxb.) Korth.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Kalam,Kadamb,K-Kutebi, Kaim, True Kadamb • Hindi: Kaim, Kadamb • Bengali: Gulikadam • Marathi: Kalam • Nepali: Kaim, Phaaldu, Saano Haledo, Tikul |
| Plant Family | : | Rubiaceae |
| Description | : | Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark 20-25 mm thick, grey-black, smooth exfoliations thin, irregular, fibrous; blaze pink, traversed by whitish rays; branchlets subterete. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules 1 cm long, interpetiolar, ovate-oblong or obovate, foliaceous, membranous, cauducous; petiole 10-40 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 5-16 cm x 2.5-10 cm, variable, ovate, orbicular, elliptic or ovate-oblong, base obtuse, attenuate, acute or subcordate, apex obtuse or round; margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, pinnate, prominent beneath; intercostae scalariform, slender; domatia present. Flowers bisexual, creamy white, 10-12 mm long, in terminal heads; peduncle supported by a pair of bract like oblong leaves; bracteoles small, subulate; calyx tube short, truncate, rim even; corolla tube funnel shaped, 8 mm long, villous inside, lobes 4-5 oblong, reflexed; stamens 5, attached towards the apex of corolla tube; anthers apiculate; ovary 2-celled, inferior, ovules many; style filiform; stigma mitriform, hollow at base. Fruit capsules in globose heads, 2-3 mm long, ribbed, separating in to two cocci, brown; seeds many, small, 10-ribbed. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The bark and roots are used in the treatment of fevers and colic. Roots & Bark: acrid, bitter, stomachic and febrifuge. Leaves: acrid, bitter, sweet, styptic, vulnerary, stomachic, anti-inflammatory, anodyne, depurative and febrifuge. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Pyroligneous acid; rotundifoline; isorotundifoline; rhynchophylline; isorhynchophylline; pteropodine; isopteropodine; hirsutine; dihydrocorynantheine; akuammigine; demethoxyisohortiamine; Tetrahydroalstonine; akuammigine; pteropodine; isopteropodine; speciophylline; uncarine F; isorhynchophylline; rhynchophylline; isomitraphylline; hirsutine; corynantheidol; dihydrocorynantheol; angustine; akuammigine; tetrahydroalstonine; pteropodine; isopteropodine; speciophylline; uncarine F; dihydrocorynantheol; corynantheidol; mitraphylline; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://bioinfo.bisr.res.in/project/domap/plant_details.php?plantid=0089
- http://tropical.theferns.info/image.php?id=Mitragyna+parvifolia
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/15906
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Kaim.html
- http://www.ebbd.info/mitragyna_parvifolia.html
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16872649 |
| 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 | : |
| Order | : Gentianales |
| Family | : Rubiaceae - Madder family |
| Genus | : Mitragyna |
| Species | : Mitragyna parviflora |