MH063 : Smithia bigemina Dalzell |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : |
154 |
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| Class |
: Equisetopsida |
| Order |
: Fabales |
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: Fabaceae |
| Genus |
: Smithia |
| Species |
: Smithia bigemina Dalzell |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : |
On Chikhaldara,Vairat,Makhala plateaux |
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| Plant Category : |
Herbs |
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| Plant's Current Status : |
- |
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| Plant Family : |
Fabaceae |
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| Plant Common Name : |
double paired smithia, lahan kawla, berki |
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| Synonym : |
-
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| Description : |
Annual, 15-30 cm tall, branches bristly, hairs yellow. Leaf rachis c. 3.5 mm long, leaflets 4, subsessile, 9-12 mm long, 4.5-9 mm broad, oblanceolate, cuneate, obtuse, apiculate, glabrous above, pubescent below; stipules prolonged below into auricles. Inflorescence a 2-8-flowered peduncled axillary cyme. Peduncle longer than the leaves. Pedicel very short. Calyx 3-3.5 mm long, pubescent, upper lip truncate or slightly emarginate, the lower 3-toothed. Corolla yellow, 6-7 mm long. Fruit 6-8-jointed, joints tuberculate.
Fl.Per.: September-December (Cooke l.c.). |
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| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : |
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| Reference : |
~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :
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