Wrightia tomentosa (Roxb.) Roem. & Schult.
Wrightia tomentosa (Roxb.) Roem. & Schult.
MT067 : Wrightia tomentosa (Roxb.) Roem. & Schult.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 294 |
| Synonym | : | Wrightia arborea (Dennst.) D.J. Mabberley.;
Beaumontia wallichii (A.DC.) Walp.;
Chonemorpha vestita G.Don.;
Echites tomentosus Roth.;
Echites vestitus Roem. & Schult.;
Hunteria eugeniifolia Wall. ex G.Don.;
Nerium coraea Buch.-Ham. ex A.DC.;
Nerium tomentosum (Roem. & Schult.) Roxb.;
Periploca arborea Dennst.;
Wrightia coalita Buch.-Ham. ex Dillwyn.;
Wrightia coalita F. Buchanan-Hamilton ex L.W. Dillwyn.;
Wrightia coraia Wall. ex A.DC.;
Wrightia hamiltoniana Wall.;
Wrightia mollissima A.DC.;
Wrightia mollissima Wall.;
Wrightia pubescens Roth.;
Wrightia rheedei Kostel.;
Wrightia wallichii A. DC.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Dudhi, Woolly Dyeing Rosebay • Hindi: daira, dharauli, dudhi • Marathi: pandu kuda, tambda kuda • Tamil: vet-palai • Malayalam: ayyappaala, mayilampaala • Telugu: adaviankudu • Bengali: Dudhkoraiya • Konkani: atgo kudo • Assamese: Atkuri • Sanskrit: kutaja • Nepali: Raanee Khirro, Darulaa, Thulo Kuro, Kaling • Nepali: Raanee Khirro, ????? Darulaa, Thulo Kuro, Kaling |
| Plant Family | : | Apocynaceae |
| Description | : | A small tree, branches tomentose when young, glabrous-puberulous when mature. Leaves 7.5-15 x 3-7 cm, elliptic obovate, acuminate, base acute or rounded, tomentose on both surrfaces, margin thickly undulate, 8-14 pairs of lateral nerves, petiole 2.5-5 mm long, with glands in the axil. Flowers white turning yellow, c. 2.5 cm across, with unpleasant odour; pedicel tomentose, c.6 mm long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, tomentose, c. 2.5 mm long. Calyx tomentose; lobes short rounded, tomentose c. 2.5 mm long, glandular within. Corolla-tube about twice as long as the calyx, cylindrical, lobes linear or obovate-oblong, rounded or obtuse, thick and brittle; corona scales variable 5-10, orange in colour, laciniate, united to form a cup at the base. Anthers white. Fruit 15-18 x 1.25 cm, cylindric, pendulous, grooved at the union of the carpels, beaked, striate with white dots all over. Seeds slender, beaked, 1.25 mm long, coma twice or more as long as the seed, white, deciduous. Fl.Per.: May-June. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | On Vairat plateaux |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Warmicide, Mulvyadh |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: n-tritriacont-16-one; hexacosan-3,6-diol-12-oic acid; wrightiadione; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200018498
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Woolly%20Dyeing%20Rosebay.html
- http://www.orientjchem.org/vol8no1/chemical_constituents_of_barks_of_wrightia_tomentosa/
- https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19940302392 |
| 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 | : Apocynaceae |
| Genus | : Wrightia |
| Species | : Wrightia tomentosa (Roxb.) Roem. & Schult. |