Dillenia pentagyna Roxb.
Dillenia pentagyna Roxb.
Dillenia pentagyna Roxb.
Dillenia pentagyna Roxb.
MT110 : Dillenia pentagyna Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Colbertia augusta (Roxb.) Wall.; Colbertia coromandelina DC.; Colbertia floribunda Wall.; Colbertia minor Zoll. & Moritzi; Dillenia augusta Roxb.; Dillenia baillonii Pierre ex Laness.; Dillenia hainanensis Merr.; Dillenia minor Gilg; Dillenia pilosa Roxb.; Wormia augusta (Roxb.) Steud.; Wormia coromandelina (DC.) Spreng.; Wormia floribunda (Wall.) Steud.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Karmal, Dog Teak, Dillenia, Nepali elephant apple • Hindi: karmal • Marathi: piwala karmal • Tamil: nay-t-tekku, punnai vakai • Malayalam: kutapunna, pattippunna, vaazhappunna • Telugu: chinna kalinga, revada • Kannada: kaadu kanigalu • Bengali: ban chalta • • Oriya: railgatcho • Konkani: lahan karmal • Assamese: okshi • Gujarati: karmal • Khasi: dieng soh bar • Mizo: kaihzawl, kawrthing-dengte • Sanskrit: aksikiphal, punnaga • Nepalese: ram phal, tantari |
| Plant Family | : | DILLENIACEAE |
| Description | : | Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark 15-20 mm, thick, surface grey, molted with white, smooth; blaze pink-red; branchlets stout, with prominent 'V' shaped leaf scars. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at the tip of branchlets, estipulate; petiole 15-60 mm long, sheathing, stout, glabrous, winged; lamina 15-60 x 10-25 cm, obovate to oblong-lanceolate, scarious, base acute or attenuate, apex obtuse, margin serrate, rarely entire, glabrous above, puberulent beneath; lateral nerves many, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint. Flowers bisexual, fascicled on old branches, 2.5-3 cm across, yellow, fragrant; pedicels 2.5-6 cm long; bracts hairy; sepals 5, 8-12 mm long, obovate or elliptic, glabrous, accrescent; petals 5, 10-20 x 7-12 mm, obovate, obtuse, bright yellow; stamens numerous, yellow in 2 series, outer series with 60-90 stamens, each 2.5-4 mm long, inner series with up to 10 stamens, each 6-9 mm long; carpels 5-10, cohering at the axis, arranged on the narrow conical receptacle, unilocular, ovules many; styles free, 4 mm long. Fruit aggregate of berries, drooping, subglobose, 15 x 13 mm, indehiscent, fleshy, yellow, orange or red, subtended by persistent sepals; seeds numerous, 5 x 3.5 mm, ovoid, black, glabrous, exarillate. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Was found in Khandu range |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | A paste of the leaves is applied as a poultice to treat scorpion bites. According to Ayurveda, the plant pacifies vitiated vata, kapha. It is used to treat anal fistula, wounds, diabetes, diabetic carbuncle, neuritis, pleurisy, pneumonia, and burning sensation. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Betulic acid; Betulin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Betulin; |
| 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 | : | ~ 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 : ~ 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 | : |
| Order | : Dilleniales |
| Family | : Dilleniaceae |
| Genus | : Dillenia |
| Species | : Dillenia pentagyna Roxb. |