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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH269 : Crotalaria verrucosa L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae
Genus : Crotalaria
Species : Crotalaria verrucosa L.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : FABOIDEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : Blue Rattlepod, blue-flowered crotalaria, blue-flower rattlepod, purple popbush, shack-shack, tooth-leaf rattlepod • Bengali: bansan • Gujarati: ghugharo • Hindi: banshan, jhunjhunia • Kannada: gijigiji gida • Konkani: bhat ghagari • Malayalam: kilukilukki, kilukiluppa • Marathi: bhat ghagari, khulkhula, sagar tag • Sanskrit: brihatpuspi, shanapuspi • Tamil: cankuniti, kilu-kiluppai • Telugu: giliginta
 
Synonym : Anisanthera hastata Raf.
Anisanthera versicolor Raf.
Crotalaria acuminata (DC.)G.Don
Crotalaria angulosa Lam.
Crotalaria arnottiana Benth.
Crotalaria caerulea Jacq.
Crotalaria coerulea Bedd.
Crotalaria flexuosa Moench
Crotalaria hastata Steud.
Crotalaria mollis Weinm.
Crotalaria paramariboensis Miq.
Crotalaria semperflorens Vent.
Crotalaria verrucosa var. acuminata DC.
Crotalaria wallichiana Wight & Arn.
Phaseolus bulai Blanco
Quirosia anceps Blanco
Description : a branched annual herb, 50-100 cm high. Branches are acute and angled. Ovate to traiangular leaves are 5-15 cm long. Leaf stalk 2-4 mm. Flowers occur in 10-12 flowered racemes at the end of branches or laterally. The racemes are typically 15-20 cm long. Flower tube is about 2 cm, bluish purple and white. "Standard" petal 1.5 cm, obovate, veined with dark purple lines. Pods are densely silky hairy when young, 3-4 cm long. Flowering: November.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The roots are used as a treatment against fever and stomach pains. The plant (part not specified) is blood purifier, emmenagogue. It is used to purify the blood and to cure skin diseases.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Arachidic acid
lauric acid
linolenic acid
Octadecanoate
oleic acid
palmitic acid
Taraxerol
Tetradecanoic acid
kaempferol
Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :