Download Plant of the week - Oroxylum indicum

PLANT OF THE WEEK
8th week
12-1-2015
Oroxylum indicum (L.) Kurz. – Midnight horror tree
Botanical Name
Description
Oroxylom indicum (L.) Kurz.
Habit :- Oroxylum indicum is a small branched tree with 5-10 m high, laxly branched or unbranched.
Synonyms
Leaf :- Leaves opposite, 2-4 pinnately compound. Leaflets triangular-ovate, glabrous, becoming after drying,
base sub rounded, oblique, margin entire.
Bignonia indica L.
Calosanthes indica (L.) Blume.
Bignonia pentandra Laur.
Family
Flower :- Inflorescence racemose, terminal, calyx large, purple,
broadly campanulate, fleshy. Corolla purple-red, campanulate, limb
slightly bilabiate, tomentose basally, stamen 5, sub equal, style
filiform, stigma ligulate, compressed.
Bignoniaceae
Local Name
English : Midnight horror tree
Fruit :- Capsule woody, valves with midrib, margin convex. Seed
rounded, winged including papery.
Oroxylum indicum
~ A night bloomer ~
Hindi : Sagru
Oriya : Phanaphana
Uses
Tamil : Konda
Bengali : Sona
The bark, leaves, root, root bark, fruits, leaves and seeds are used to treat snake bite.
Habitat
It is found occasional in mixed deciduous
forests, especially in hills.
Distribution
India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Indonesia,
Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand,
Vietnam, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi,
Guizhou, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan,
Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia,
Bhutan, China.
Flowering time: July-August
Fruiting time: December-March
Conservation Status
Endangered
Bark :- The decoction of the bark is taken for curing gastric ulcer and a paste made of the
bark applied to cure mouth cancer, scabies and other skin diseases. Juice of the bark is used
as a tonic and astringent useful in diarrhea, diaphoretic, rheumatism and dysentery.
Root :- It is used to cure inflammations, leprosy, dropsy, sprains, neuralgia, hiccough,
cough, asthma, bronchitis, anorexia, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery.
Source
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Root Bark :- It is used as astringent, bitter tonic, stomachic, anodyne and sudorific and also
useful in diarrhea, dysentery and ottorrhoea.
Leaf :- Paste of leaves are used externally to treat an enlarged spleen, headache and
ulcer, also used as emollient & anodyne.
Fruit :- Tender fruits are prescribed for expectorant, carminative and stomachic and
also useful in cough, bronchitis, dyspepsia, flatulence, colic and leucoderma.
The mature fruits are to cure acrid, sweet, anthelmintic and stomachic and also useful
in sore throat, cardiac disorders, worm infestations, gastric disorders, bronchitis.
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Seed :- The seed are used as purgative.
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Mao, A.A.; Oroxylum
indicum Vent.-A potential
anticancer Medicinal plant.
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M. (1994). The Flora of
Orissa, Vol.II,
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Sharma P.C.; Yelne M.B.;
Dennis T.J.(2005 ).Database
on Medicinal Plants used in
Ayurveda, Vol.II
pp: 490-499.
Sharma R. (2003).
Medicinal plants of IndiaAn encyclopedia,
pp 179-180.
Swain B.K & Das S.K.
(2007) Visual guide to wild
medicinal plants of Orissa,
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www.en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/ oroxylum_indicum
www.envis.frlht.org.