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

Ziziphus oenoplia
Ziziphus oenoplia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
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.

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 oenoplia var. brunoniana show antiplasmodial in vitro activity against the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum.[6]

References

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.
• 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 (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. Retrieved 2010-11-02.
• "Ziziphus oenopolia". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 2010-11-02.
• "Ziziphus oenoplia ". Myanmar Medicinal Plant Database. Retrieved 2010-11-02.
• "Ziziphus oenoplia ". Forestry Nepal. Retrieved 2015-11-10.

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