Magnolia champaca (L.) Baill. ex Pierre.
Magnolia champaca (L.) Baill. ex Pierre.
MT095 : Magnolia champaca (L.) Baill. ex Pierre.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Michelia champaca L.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Champa, Golden Champa Assamese: Tita-sopa Bengali: Champa Gujarati: Sachochampo Hindi: Champa, Son champa Kannada: Sampige Konkani: Pudchampo Manipuri: Leihao Marathi: Pivalu Champa Nepali: Aule chaanp Oriya: Chompa Sanskrit: Champaka Tamil: Sambagan Tangkhul: Shelungwon Telugu: Champangi Urdu: Champa Marathi: Son-chafa Nepali: Aule Chaanp, Champaa, Chaanp |
| Plant Family | : | Magnoliaceae |
| Description | : | It is a tree up to 50 m or taller, up to 1.9 m d.b.h. Flowers are fragrant, tepals 15-20, yellow, inverted-lanceshaped, 2-4 x 0.4-0.5 cm. Staminal connective is protruding and forming a long tip. Buds, young twigs, young petioles, and young leaf blades are pale yellow velvet-hairy. Twigs are ascending and forming a narrow umbelliform crown. Stipular scar 0.3-1 x as long as petiole. Leaf-stalks are 2-4 cm, leaves elliptic or ovate, 10-20 x 4.5-10 cm, slightly puberulous below, base broadly wedge-shaped or rounded, tip long-pointed tp falling off. Fruit is 7-15 cm; mature carpels obovoid-ellipsoid, 1-1.5 cm, tuberculate. Seeds 2-4 per carpel, rugose. Flowering: June-July. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The bark is used as a febrifuge. A decoction of the bark and leaves is given after childbirth. The flowers are used to treat leprosy. The leaves are used as a treatment against colic. The seeds are used to treat badly chapped skin.
Traditionally, the joy perfume tree was used in several treatments including fever, leprosy, cough, ulcer, abdominal cohlic, rheumatism, constipation, dysmenorrhoea, bronchitis, wounds, skin diseases and various other disorders.
Also, this plant possesses numerous pharmacological properties such as anti-microbial, anti-pyretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, insecticidal, anti-uretic, anti-dinic, carminative, anti-diabetic etc. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Quercetin; n-Docosanoic acid; 9,12-octadecadienoic acid; Butanoic acid;
Oleic acid; Camphorsulfonic acid;
alpha-terpinolene; Beta-elemene; Beta-
caryophyllene; alphahumulene; Beta-selinene; alpha-selinene; gamma-cadinene; (E)-nerolidol; alpha-cadinol; Beta-bisabolol; Z-farnesol; E-farnesol;
pentadecanol; hexadecanol; Gallic acid; Stigmasterol; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (10): Quercetin; Caryophyllene; Alpha-cadinol; Stigmasterol; Farnesol; Nerolidol; Terpinolene; Camphor; Nerol; Gallic Acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | |
| Reference | : | ~ Dinesh Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Seema Taprial, Deepak Kashyap, Ajay Kumar and Om Prakash; "A review of chemical and biological profile of genus Michelia"; Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine (2012); 10(12): 1336-1340 PMID : ~ Pradeepa Panneerselvam, Vedha Hari B Narayanan and Ramya Devi Durai; "Pharmacological and Medicinal Potential from Flowers of Perfume Tree Michelia champaca β A Review"; International Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Research (2016 ); 8(11): 1896-1900 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 | : Magnoliidae |
| Order | : Magnoliales |
| Family | : Magnoliaceae - Magnolia family |
| Genus | : Magnolia |
| Species | : Magnolia champaca (L.) Baill. ex Pierre. |