| PlantID | 0105 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Botanical Name | Ixora arborea | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name | Kotagandhal | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Part used | Bark and flowers. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Properties | Bark: tonic. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Use | Plant used in dysuria and spider bite poisoning. Bark: useful in anaemia, decoction used in general debility. Flowers: used for whooping cough (pounded in milk). | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chemistry | Leaves: Ixoral and Beta-Sitosterol. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cultivation | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regional Habitat | Common throughout hilly regions of the Rajasthan. Distribution: chittorgarh, bharatpur, kota and jhalawar districts. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Evergreen trees, 2.5-4.0 m high, bark brown and branches terete and glabrous. Leaves: stipules caducous, 0.5 x 0.4 cm; ovate, glabrous, apex cuspidate; petioles 0.1-0.2 cm long; lamina acute-cordate at base, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate 5.0-11.0 x 2.5-5.7 cm, surfaces rugose, shining, glabrous, lateral-veins 8-15 pairs, prominent abaxially, apex obtuse or sub-acute, margins entire. Flowers: 1.0 cm long, fragrant, numerous, in sub-globose clusters, peduncles 2-3 cm long; pedicels sessile; bracts apical ones oblong-lanceolate, basal ones ovate, acuminate; bracteoles subulate; calyx pubescent, ovoid-oblong; teeth 4, minute, triangular, sub-acute; corolla 0.5 cm long, tube glabrous, lobes 4, oblong, obtuse, deflexed; stamens 4, inserted at the mouth of the tube; anthers almost sessile, bases tailed, apex acute; style slender; stigmatic branches 2, elliptic, spreading. Fruits: glabrous, red(brownish-black in sicci). Flowers and fruits appears during January-April. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ixora arborea