Michelia champaca (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

1, tree habit; 2, flowering twig; 3, infructescence; 4, sectioned flower; 5, stamen; 6, seed.

Michelia champaca L.

Synonyms

• Michelia pilifera Bakh. f.,
• Michelia velutina auct. non DC.

Vernacular names

• Orange chempaka (En)
• Indonesia: cempaka kuning (general), capaka (Halmahera), cempaka (Javanese)
• Malaysia: champaka (Sabah), chempaka, chempaka merah (Peninsular)
• Philippines: champaca (general)
• Burma (Myanmar): mawk-sam-lung
• Laos: cham pa
• Thailand: champa (general), champa khao, champa pa (peninsular)
• Vietnam: ngọc lan.

Distribution

From India and Burma (Myanmar) to Indo-China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands; possibly native only to India, now commonly cultivated throughout the tropics.

Composition of essential-oil of Flower absolute

• 25.0% 2-phenylethanol
• 13.0% methyl linoleate
• 4.5% methyl anthranilate
• 4.0% benzyl acetate
• 3.4% β-lonone
• 3.0% methyl palmitate
• 2.9% indole
• 2.0% linalool
• 2.0% 2-phenylethyl acetate
• 2.0% oximes of ionones
• 1.6% α-farnesene
• 1.6% α-ionone
• 1.4% dehydro-β-ionone
• 1.3% phenylacetonitrile
• 1.1% dehydro β-ionol
• 1.0% methyl benzoate
• 0.8% benzyl alcohol
• 0.6% methyl cis-(Z)-jasmonate
• 0.5% phenylacetaldoxime
• 0.3% β-ionol
• 0.2% eugenol
• 0.2% cis-linalool oxide (6) (pyranoid)
• 0.1% photoisomer of β-ionone
• 72.5% total

Source: Kaiser, 1989.

Authors

U.A. Dasuki

Main genus page

• Michelia (PROSEA Timbers)

• See also Michelia (PROSEA Essential oils)