Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.
Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.
MT129 : Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Cyclostemon racemosus Zipp. ex Span.; Drypetes roxburghii (Wall.) Hurus.; Drypetes roxburghii var. timorensis (Blume) Airy Shaw; Drypetes timorensis (Blume) Pax & K.Hoffm.; Nageia putranjiva Roxb., nom. illeg.; Putranjiva amblyocarpa Müll.Arg.; Putranjiva sphaerocarpa Müll.Arg.; Pycnosandra timorensis Blume; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Putranjiva, Lucky Bean Tree • Hindi: Putijia • Marathi: Jivanputra, Patravanti • Tamil: Irukolli, Karupala • Malayalam: Pongalam • Telugu: Kuduru, Putrajivika • Kannada: Amani Putrajiva • Bengali: Putranjiva, Jioysuta • Oriya: Poilundia • Konkani: Saman • Urdu: Paishandia • Gujarati: Putranjiva • Sanskrit: Putrajivah |
| Plant Family | : | PUTRANJIVACEAE |
| Description | : | Trees, to 20 m high, bark dark grey, whitish when young with horizontal lenticels; branches generally pendent; branchlets terete, brown or blackish, slender, pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipule small, lateral, caducous; petiole 5-7 mm long, slender, pubescent; lamina 3.5-12 x 1.5-4.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, base oblique, apex shortly acuminate, acute or obtuse with retuse tip; margin serrate or serrulate, glabrous, dark green, shining, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, pinnate, slender, ascending, prominent, intercostae reticulate, slender, prominent. Flowers unisexual, small, yellow; male flowers: sessile, in axillary spikes, 2-2.5 mm across; pedicels 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous; tepals 3-5, oblong, puberulous without, ciliate, obtuse, imbricate; stamens 2-4, 1.5-2 mm long; filaments thick, more or less connate towards base; anthers ovate, hairy; female flowers: solitary or in 2 or 3, axillary; pedicel upto 15 mm long, puberulous; bracts lanceolate; tepals 5-6, 2-2.5 × 1-1.5 mm, unequal, oblong, puberulous without, ciliate, acute; ovary superior, 3 x 2.5 mm, globose, tomentose, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style 3, spreading, tomentose, often connate below into dilated into broad fleshy stigma; stigma crescent-shaped, glandular. Fruit a drupe, 1.3-2 x 1.5 cm, ovoid-ellipsoid, white tomentose; seed one, crustaceous; pedicels 6-25 mm long. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | A decoction of leaves and fruit is taken for the treatment of liver complaints, colds, fevers and rheumatism. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Putranoside A; beta-amyrin; (-)-Epicatechin gallate; epi-Friedelinol; Friedlein; galactitol; Glucocleomin; Glucocochlearin; Glucoputranjivin; Patrinoside; Putranjivic acid; Putric acid; Rubranoside B; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3): Catechin; Friedelin; Epicatechin; |
| 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 | : Malpighiales |
| Family | : Putranjivaceae |
| Genus | : Putranjiva |
| Species | : Putranjiva roxburghii Wall. |