Cordia dichotoma G. Forst. - fragrant manjack
Cordia dichotoma G. Forst. - fragrant manjack
MT068 : Cordia dichotoma Forster. f., Prodr.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 309 |
| Synonym | : | Cordia brownii A.DC.;
Cordia griffithii C.B.Clarke;
Cordia indica Lam.;
Cordia latifolia Roxb.;
Cordia loureiroi Roem. & Schult.;
Cordia lowriana Brandis;
Cordia obliqua Willd.;
Cordia obliqua var. wallichii (G.Don) C.B.Clarke;
Cordia premnifolia Ridl.;
Cordia suaveolens Blume;
Cordia tomentosa Wall. [Illegitimate]; Cordia tremula Griseb.;
Cordia wallichii G.Don;
Gerascanthus dichotomus (G.Forst.) Borhidi;
Gerascanthus griffithii (C.B.Clarke) Borhidi [Invalid];
Gerascanthus suaveolens (Blume) Borhidi [Invalid];
Varronia sinensis Lour.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Chilu, Silu, bird lime tree, clammy cherry, fragrant manjack, Indian cherry, Sebesten plum, bahuar, gunda, lasora, bhokar, gondani, gondhan |
| Plant Family | : | Boraginaceae |
| Description | : | A polygamo-dioecious tree up to 15 m tall. Branchlets pubescent. Leaves 5-8 x 1.5-3.0 cm, elliptic-ovate to obovate, pubescent, especially on the under-surface, margin sometimes undulate, base cuneate to oblique or rounded. Petiole up to 3.0 cm long. Flowers in dichotomous cymes, ebracteate. Male flowers: Calyx c. 2.5 mm long, shallowly 5-lobed, hairy to the inside. Corolla campanulate, c. 6 mm long, tube about equalling the limb, dense hairy within. Lobes oblanceolate or broadly so, recurved. Filaments c. 4.5 mm, lower half hairy and adnate to tube; anthers 2.5-3 mm long; bisexual flowers: similar but larger than male flowers. Calyx 5-6 mm long, campanulate, accrescent and up to 10 mm in fruit. Filaments c. 2 mm long. Style branched. Drupe up to 15 mm broad, yellowish-red. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Dedra Khora Koktu Vally |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Cough, Skin diseases, anti-diabetic, anti-ulcer, anti-inflammatory, immune-modulator and analgesic activity. From the ancient time, leaves and stem bark are used in the treatment of dyspepsia, fever, Diarrhea, leprosy, gonorrhea and burning sensation. Leaf of plant traditionally shows the therapeutic uses and actions such as anthelmintic, astringent, diuretic, demulcent, purgative, expectorant, tonic, ulcer and cough. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: alpha-amyrins; betulin; octacosanol; lupeol-3rhamnoside; beta-sitosterol; beta-sitosterol-3-glucoside; hentricontanol; hentricontane; taxifolin-3-5-dirhamnoside; hesperitin-7-rhamnoside; palmitic acid; stearic acid; arachidic acid; behenic acid; oleic acid; linoleic acid; robinin; rutin; rutoside; datiscoside; hesperidin; dihydrorobinetin; chlorogenic acid; caffeic acid; aplha-amyrins; Allointoin; Apigenine; Hesperidine; Lupeol; Robonine; Carotenoid; Dihydrorobenetin; arabinoglucan; quercetin; quercitrin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (12): Lupeol; Beta-sitosterol; Quercetin; Rutin; Apigenin; Hesperidin; Alpha-amyrin; Betulin; Taxifolin; Palmitic acid; Caffeic acid; Chlorogenic acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805104/ |
| 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 : ~ Prasad G. Jamkhande, Sonal R. Barde, Shailesh L. Patwekar and Priti S. Tidke; "Plant profile, phytochemistry and pharmacology of Cordia dichotoma (Indian cherry): A review"; Asian Pac J Trop Biomed (2013); 3(12): 1009-1012 PMID : 24093795 ~ 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 | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Lamiales |
| Family | : Boraginaceae - Borage family |
| Genus | : Cordia L. - cordia |
| Species | : Cordia dichotoma G. Forst. - fragrant manjack |