MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH354 : Stylosanthes fruticosa (Retz.) Alston. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 14 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Harisal. Also found in plains | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Leguminosae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Shrubby Pensil-Flower, Wild lucerne, Saillekampa, Saali kampa | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Arachis fruticosa Retz. Hedysarum hamatum Burm.f. Stylosanthes bojeri Vogel. Stylosanthes flavicans Baker. Stylosanthes mucronata Willd. |
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| Description : | Procumbent herbs or undershrubs; root-stock woody. Stem, peduncles and pedicels loosely villous. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 8-20 x 2.5-5 mm, oblong-elliptic or linear-lanceolate, acute at base and apex, mucronate at tip, pubescent on both sides, ciliate on margins; nerves parallel and close; stipules 8-13 mm long, lanceolate, adnate to base of petiole, sheathing, villous without. Flowers yellow 3-5 in terminal heads; bracts and bracteoles 0.8-1.2 cm long, linear-lanceolate, densely hairy. Calyx lobes 2-4 mm long, densely brown hairy. Petals yellow, 4-6 mm long. Stamens monadelphous. Ovary 2-3 mm long, suborbicular, woolly; style filiform. Pods 5-8 mm long, monoiliform, 1or 2-articulate; articles pilose, reticulate, fully enclosed in calyx, beak curved. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, reniform. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | treatment of toothache and strengthening of gums, anthelmintic, kidney diseases, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, Hepatoprotective, antihyperglycaemic, antihyperglycaemic and anti-cancer. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Hazaleamidemonoeptixide Propanic acid Dodecanoic acid |
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| Reference : | ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID : |
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