Medicinal plant details
Dalbergia latifoliaRoxb.
(Simsapa)
| Common name | Simsapa |
| Habit | Tree |
| Habitat | Dry and moist deciduous forests and also in the plains |
| Parts used | Stem bark |
Synonyms
| Sr. No. | Synonyms |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dalbergia emarginata Roxb. |
| 2 | Amerimnon latifolium (Roxb.) Kuntze |
| 3 | Amerimnon javanicum (Miq.) Kuntze |
| 4 | Dalbergia javanica Miq. |
Taxonomical information
| Kingdom | Viridiplantae |
| Phylum | Streptophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Dalbergia |
| Species | Dalbergia latifolia Roxb. |
Vernacular names
| Sanskrit | |
| English | Indian rosewood, Bombay blackwood |
| Hindi | Sitsal |
| Kannada | Beete |
| Marathi | |
| Malayalam | Cholaveetti, Kariveeti |
| Bengali | |
| Tamil | Eravad, Thodagathi, Eeti, Tawadi |
| Telugu | |
| Urdu |
Morphology
It is a large erect deciduous tree grows upto a height of 25 m. Bark is 10-15 mm thick, grey-brown colour with irregular short cracks, exfoliating in thin fibrous longitudinal flakes. Leaves are compound, imparipinnate, with 7-9 leaflets alternately arranged, broad at the free end, either rounded or with a small cleft at the apex. Flowers are small, 5-6 mm long, bisexual and white in colour, which appears on the axillary panicles. Stamens are 9, monodelphous, with their filaments fused. Fruits is a pod, 5-7.5 cm long and 1.5-1.8 cm broad, oblong-lanceolate shape, containing 1-4 seeds
Distribution
It is distributed throughout India, Nepal and Indonesia
Medicinal uses
Body pain, leprosy, dyspepsia, diarrhoea and obesity
References
| 1 | Deshmukh, V. P., Lunge, M. S., Rajurkar, A. V., Dharkar, N. S., Raut, S. R., and Dhoran, V. S. (2021). Chemical characterization and therapeutics of Dalbergia latifolia Roxb: A review. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 10, 340-345. |