Ziziphus oenoplia

Ziziphus oenoplia
Ziziphus oenoplia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Rosales
Family:Rhamnaceae
Genus:Ziziphus
Species: Z. oenoplia
Binomial name
Ziziphus oenoplia
(L.) Mill.
Synonyms[1]
  • Rhamnus oenopolia L.
Leaves and fruits
Flowers

Ziziphus oenoplia, commonly known as the jackal jujube, small-fruited jujube or wild jujube,in hindi known as मकोरा Makora is a flowering plant with a broad distribution through tropical and subtropical Asia and Australasia.

Description

It is a spreading, sometimes climbing, thorny shrub growing to 1.5 m in height. The leaves are simple, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, acute and oblique. The flowers are green, in subsessile axillary cymes. The fruit is a globose drupe, black and shiny when ripe, containing a single seed.[2]

Distribution and habitat

It ranges from the Indian subcontinent through southern China and Southeast Asia to northern Australia. It grows along roadside forests and thickets.[3]

Uses

The berries are edible and the bark is used for tanning.[3]

Medicinal

The plant produces cyclopeptide alkaloids known as ziziphines and has a long history of use as an herbal medicine. In India the root is used in Ayurvedic medicine.[2] The Konkani people of Maharashtra use the chewed leaves as a dressing for wounds.[4] In Burma the stem bark is used as a mouthwash for sore throats, for dysentery, and for inflammation of the uterus.[5] Research in Thailand has found that extracts of ziziphine from Ziziphus oenoplia var. brunoniana show antiplasmodial in vitro activity against the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum.[6]

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 30 January 2016
  2. 1 2 Ayurvedic medicinal plants.
  3. 1 2 Ara et al. (2008).
  4. ↑ Kuvar & Bapat (2010).
  5. ↑ Myanmar Medicinal Plant Database.
  6. ↑ Sunit Suksamrarn et al. (2005).

Sources

  • Ara, Hosne; Hassan, Md. Abul & Khanam, Mahbuba (2008-06). "Taxonomic study of the genus Ziziphus Mill. (Rhamnaceae) of Bangladesh". Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy. 15 (1): 47–61. Check date values in: |year= (help)
  • Kuvar, Sachin D. & Bapat, U.C. (2010). "Medicinal plants used by Kokani tribals of Nasik district Maharashtra to cure cuts and wounds" (PDF). Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge. 9 (1): 114–115.
  • Sunit Suksamrarn; Narisara Suwannapoch; Natthachai Aunchai; Mayuso Kuno; Piniti Ratananukul; Rachada Haritakun; Chawewan Jansakul & Somsak Ruchirawat (2005-01). "Ziziphine N, O, P and Q, new antiplasmodial cyclopeptide alkaloids from Ziziphus oenoplia var. brunoniana". Tetrahedron. 61 (5): 1175–1180. doi:10.1016/j.tet.2004.11.053. Check date values in: |year= (help)
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  • "Ziziphus oenopolia". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 2010-11-02.
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