Biology:Ziziphus oenopolia
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rhamnaceae |
| Genus: | Ziziphus |
| Species: | Z. oenopolia
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| Binomial name | |
| Ziziphus oenopolia (L.) Mill.
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Ziziphus oenopolia, commonly known as the jackal jujube, small-fruited jujube or wild jujube, is a flowering plant with a broad distribution through tropical and subtropical Asia and Australasia. In India, it is mostly found in the deciduous forests of the southern part of the country.
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.[citation needed] 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 oenopolia show antiplasmodial in vitro activity against the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum.[6]
References
- ↑ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-27500022, retrieved 30 January 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ayurvedic medicinal plants.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ara et al. (2008).
- ↑ Kuvar & Bapat (2010).
- ↑ Myanmar Medicinal Plant Database.
- ↑ Sunit Suksamrarn et al. (2005).
Sources
- Ara, Hosne; Hassan, Md. Abul; Khanam, Mahbuba (June 2008). "Taxonomic study of the genus Ziziphus Mill. (Rhamnaceae) of Bangladesh". Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 15 (1): 47–61. doi:10.3329/bjpt.v15i1.917. http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJPT/article/viewFile/917/983.
- Kuvar, Sachin D.; Bapat, U.C. (2010). "Medicinal plants used by Kokani tribals of Nasik district Maharashtra to cure cuts and wounds". Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 9 (1): 114–115. http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/7165/1/IJTK%209%281%29%20114-115.pdf.
- Sunit Suksamrarn; Narisara Suwannapoch; Natthachai Aunchai; Mayuso Kuno; Piniti Ratananukul; Rachada Haritakun; Chawewan Jansakul; Somsak Ruchirawat (January 2005). "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.
- "Ziziphus oenoplia ". Ayurvedic medicinal plants. http://ayurvedicmedicinalplants.com/plants/2710.html.
- {{citation
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- "Ziziphus oenoplia ". Myanmar Medicinal Plant Database. http://www.tuninst.net/MyanMedPlants/TIL/famR/Rhamnaceae.htm.
- "Ziziphus oenoplia ". Forestry Nepal. http://www.forestrynepal.org/resources/trees/zizyphus-oenoplia.
Wikidata ☰ Q3595464 entry
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