Holoptelea integrifolia Planch.
Holoptelea integrifolia Planch.
Holoptelea integrifolia Planch.
Plant Category | : | Tree |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 475 |
Synonym | : | Ulmus integrifolia Roxb.; |
Plant Common Name | : | Chiler, Papra, Indian Elm, entire-leaved elm tree, jungle cork tree, south Indian elm tree • Hindi: chilbil, kanju, papri • Marathi: ainasadada, vavala • Tamil: aya • Malayalam: aaval • Telugu: nali • Bengali: nata karanja • Oriya: dhauranjan • Konkani: vamvlo • Gujarati: charal, charel, kanjo • Sanskrit: chirivilva • Nepali: sano pangro |
Plant Family | : | Ulmaceae |
Description | : | Large deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark 6-8 mm thick, whitish-grey, smooth; blaze yellowish-grey, streaked with light brown; branchlets pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, scarious; petiole 5-10 mm, stout, pubescent; lamina 6-12.5 x 2.5-6.5 cm, ovate-oblong, ovate or elliptic-ovate, base rounded or subcordate, apex acuminate, margin entire, distantly serrate when young, coriaceous, glabrous above, appressed pubescent punctate below; lateral nerves 6-9 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers polygamous, appear before leaves, 5-8 mm across, greenish-purple, in axillary fascicles; tepals 4 or 5, free, anthers pubescent; female flowers with longer pedicels; ovary superior, compressed, long stipitate, 2-winged, 1-celled, ovule 1; style 2 fid. Fruit a samara, 3 cm across, orbicular, wings nerved, glabrous, seed one. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | Dodhra Khora |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The bark and leaves are used for treating oedema, diabetes, leprosy and other skin diseases, intestinal disorders, piles and sprue. A poultice of the bark and leaves is applied topically to treat boils, swellings and rheumatic pains. The bark is used externally as a treatment for rheumatism, ringworm, scabies, ulcers and scorpion stings. The mucilaginous bark is boiled then the juice is squeezed out and applied to rheumatic swellings; the exhausted bark is then powdered and applied over the parts covered by the sticky juice. The seed and a paste of the stem bark is used in treating ringworm. anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, analgesic, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, anti-diabetic, antiDiarrheal, adaptogenic, anti-cancer, wound healing, Hepatoprotective, larvicidal, antiemetic, CNS depressant, and hypolipidemic activities. |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Holoptelin-A; Holoptelin-B; friedlin; epifriedlin; Beta-amyrin; stigmasterol; Beta-sitosterol; 1,4-napthalenedione; betulin; betulinic acid; hexacosanol; octacosanol; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (4): Beta-sitosterol; Betulinic acid; Betulin; Stigmasterol; |
Plant's Current Status | : | - |
Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31452
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Elm.html
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Holoptelea+integrifolia
- https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/401213/
- http://www.apjtb.com/zz/2012s2/130.pdf |
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 : ~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID : |
Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
Subclass | : |
Order | : Rosales |
Family | : Ulmaceae - Elm family |
Genus | : Holoptelea |
Species | : Holoptelea integrifolia Planch. |