tejasvini :

Taxonomical Classification

Kingdom: Plantae - Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Zanthoxylum
Species: Zanthoxylum alatum

Allied species:

Among different medicinal plants of IHR,

Zanthoxylum (family: Rutaceae) is one of such genus which possess high medicinal, economical as well as ecological impor-tance and have about 250 species spreading all over the world. In India, 11 species of this genus is reported. These are;

Z. budrunga, Z. oxyphyllum, Z. ovalifolium, Z. acanthopodium, Z. planispinum, Z. armatum, Z. nitidium,Z. rhesta, Z. simulans, Z. avicennae

and Z. limonella

. Out of these, 4 species; Z. armatum DC., Z. acanthopodium DC., Z. oxyphyllum Edgew, and Z. budrunga are present in Uttarakhand (Kala et al., 2005)

VERNACULAR NAMES

Sanskrit: Tejovati, Tumbru,Tejovali, Tejohva, Tejbatee
English: prickly ash, toothache tree , Winged Prickly Ash, TumbruTejbal, Yellow wood, Suterberry
Hindi: Tejbal, Tumbura, Napali Dhaniya
Urdu: Kabab-e-Khanda (Miswak)
Telugu: Tejasvini
Bengali: Nepali Dhane, Gaira
Marathi: Tejbal, Tejobalee
Konkani: -
Oriya: Tejbal
Gujarathi: Tejbal
Tamil: Tejaphalam, Tejasvini
Malayalam: Tejaphalam, Tejasvini,Thumboonal, Thumbooni
Kannada: Tejaphal, Tumburu
Punjabi: Tirmira, Tundopoda
Sindhi: ڏند ڪٿان وڻ
Arabic: Phagir karava khandan,Fagrieh
Spanish: árbol del dolor de muelas
Assamese: Tejovati
Japanese: -Fuyu zanshou
Chinese: -Ci zhu ye hua jiao, Qin jiao, Huan hua zhen, Bai zong guan, Shan hua jiao. Zhu ye jiao.
French: arbre mal aux dents
German: -Nepalpfeffer.
Burma: -Gawra kha nan nan, Teza bo, Hua jiao.
Nepal: टिमुर Timur
Persian: Kavava dahana kushada
Sinhalese: ඒක නෙවෙයි මේ ගස ēka neveyi mē gasa
Greek: -δέντρο πονόδοντου déntro ponódontou