Sapindus laurifolius Vahl
Sapindus laurifolius Vahl
Plant Category | : | Tree |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
Synonym | : | Sapindus trifoliatus; |
Plant Common Name | : | South India Soapnut, three-leaf soapberry, trijugate-leaved sop-nut Hindi: phenil, risht, rishtak Manipuri: Kekru Marathi: phenil, rinthi, ritha Tamil: punalai, punthi, puvanti Malayalam: cavakkaay, pasakkottamaram, uruvanchi Telugu: kunkuduchettu, phenilamu Kannada: amtalakaayi, norekaayi, togate mara Bengali: Ritha Oriya: Ritha Konkani: ritha Urdu: Phenil, Reetha Assamese: aritha Gujarati: arithi, aritho, arithu Sanskrit: hrishtah, phenaka, phenil, rishtah, rishtak, rita, sarishta, urdhvashodhanah |
Plant Family | : | SAPINDACEAE |
Description | : | A large tree. Leaves 15-30 cm long; leaflets sub-sessile, 2-3 pairs, 8-18 cm long, 5-7.5 cm broad, elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous, entire, acute, base slightly oblique, terminal pair longest. Flowers greenish-white, in terminal, slightly pubescent panicles; bract 1; bracteoles 2, 1 mm long, subulate, pubescent; pedicel 3 mm long, pubescent. Sepals 5, slightly connate at the base, 4-5 mm long, ovate-oblong, pubescent. Petals 5, free, 5-6 mm long, lanceolate-ovate, clawed, hispid. Disc 5-lobed, concave hirsute. Stamens 8, free; filaments 2-3 mm long, villous; anthers 1.5-2 mm long, basifixed, api¬culate. Ovary 3-locular, 3-lobed, ovoid, c. 3 mm long, tomentose, with 1 ovule in each locule; style 1.5 mm long. Fruit 2-3 lobed, 1.3-2 cm long, pubescent when young, hard and glabrous when mature. Seed 1 in each cell, 6-9 mm long, black. Flowering: November-January. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | Near villages |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Anthelmintic; astringent; emetic; rheumatism; gout; |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: alpha-hederin; emarginatoside C; Sapindic acid; Arachidic acid; Docosanoic acid; emarginatoside B; Hederagenin; kaempferol; Kaempferol 3-O-beta-D-galactoside; Octadecanoate; OLEANOLIC ACID; oleic acid; palmitic acid; quercetin; Sapindoside B; Sapindoside C; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5): Quercetin; Kaempferol; Oleanolic Acid; Palmitic acid; Hederagenin; |
Plant's Current Status | : | |
Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
Reference | : | Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book |
Reference | : | ~ Fatema Nasrin and Md. Lukman Hakim; "In vivo antidiarrheal study of ethanolic extracts of Mikania cordata and Litsea monopetala leaves "; Bangladesh J Pharmacol (2015); 10: 562-565 PMID : ~ Ali Ahmmad, Md. Torequl Islam*, Irin Sultana, Ayesha Mahmood, Jasmin Akther Hossain, Zilly Homa, Mohammed Ibrahim and M. Mohi Uddin Chowdhury; "Pharmacological and Phytochemical Screening of Ethanol Extract of Litsea monopetala (Roxb.) Pers."; IOSR Journal of Pharmacy (2012); 2(3): 398-402 PMID : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book 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 | : Sapindales |
Family | : Sapindaceae |
Genus | : Sapindus |
Species | : Sapindus laurifolius Vahl |