Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss.
Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss.
Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss.
Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss.
Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss.
Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss.
Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss.
MT077 : Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 456 |
| Synonym | : | Andrachne doonkyboisca B.Heyne ex Wall. [Invalid]; Bridelia airy-shawii P.T.Li [Illegitimate]; Bridelia amoena Wall. ex Baill.; Bridelia cambodiana Gagnep.; Bridelia chineensis Thin; Bridelia cinerascens Gehrm.; Bridelia crenulata Roxb.; Bridelia fordii Hemsl.; Bridelia fruticosa Pers.; Bridelia hamiltoniana var. glabra Müll.Arg.; Bridelia pierrei Gagnep.; Bridelia retusa (L.) Spreng.; Bridelia retusa var. glabra Gehrm.; Bridelia retusa var. glauca Hook.f.; Bridelia retusa var. pubescens Gehrm.; Bridelia retusa var. roxburghiana Müll.Arg. [Illegitimate]; Bridelia retusa var. squamosa (Lam.) Müll.Arg.; Bridelia retusa var. stipulata Gehrm.; Bridelia roxburghiana (Müll.Arg.) Gehrm.; Bridelia spinosa (Roxb.) Willd.; Bridelia squamosa (Lam.) Gehrm.; Bridelia squamosa var. meeboldii Gehrm.; Clutia retusa L.; Clutia spinosa Roxb.; Clutia squamosa Lam.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | K- Khadka, Spinous Kino Tree, kaji, Khaja, kassi, asana, Mullu-Vengai, Adamarudu, Kaduga, Mulkaini, Mulluvenga, Kora maddi, Asana, Gojji, Komanji, Koyamarwa, mulluhonne, Nasinage, Geio, asana, ekavira |
| Plant Family | : | Phyllanthaceae |
| Description | : | Spinous Kino Tree is identified by rigid leathery leaves with straight parallel lateral veins and strong spines on the bark of young stems. It is a drought hardy species, produces root-suckers and a good coppicer. Leaf-blade is elliptic-oblong to elliptic-oblanceolate, 10-20 x 4-10 cm, tip somewhat pointed, sometimes blunt, base is rounded or roundly wedge-shaped, margin entire or wavy, thinly leathery, lateral nerves 15-20 pairs. Flowers are arranged in axillary fascicles and also in fascicles on leafless branches appearing as spikes. The fascicles are either unisexual or bisexual; axes densely puberulous; bracts small, acute; flowers stalked. Fruit is globose, fleshy sweetish drupe, about the size of a pea, purple-black, seated on a hard enlarged calyx. 1 or 2 seeds with fairly thick bony shells. Distributed throughout India, in hotter parts along the base of the Himalayas from Kashmir to Mishmi, southward to Ceylon. Flowering: May-August. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Kolkaz ,Raipur, Chunkhadi, Raipur |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The plant is pungent, bitter, heating, useful in lumbago, hemiplegia; bark is good for the removal of urinary concretions (Ayurveda). Root and bark are valuable astringents. The bark is used as a liniment with gingelly oil in rheumatism. The bark is anti-viral, hypoglycaemic, hypotensive. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: benzoic acid; isochaminic acid; elemicin; cumic acid; 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://jprsolutions.info/files/final_file-56893268635236.41364443.pdf
- http://www.mpbd.info/plants/bridelia_retusa.php
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Spinous%20Kino%20Tree.html |
| Reference | : | ~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula
Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 PMID : ~ 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 | : Equisetopsida |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Malpighiales |
| Family | : Phyllanthaceae |
| Genus | : Bridelia |
| Species | : Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss. |