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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH442 : Vigna radiata var. sublobata

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Vigna Savi - cowpea
Species : Vigna radiata var. sublobata
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : FABOIDEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : Wild black gram, Ban Urad
 
Synonym : Phaseolus setulosus Dalzell
Phaseolus sublobatus
Phaseolus sublobatus Roxb.
Phaseolus trinervis
Phaseolus trinervius Wight & Arn.
Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek var. sublobata (Roxb.) Verdc.
Vigna radiata var. setulosa (Dalzell) Ohwi & H. Ohashi
Vigna sublobata
Vigna sublobata (Roxb.)
Description : Annual twining herbs; stems, petioles and peduncles clothed with ferruginous, deflexed hairs. Leaflets 3.5-7.5 x 2.8-5 cm, ovate-deltoid, base cuneate to subtruncate, apex obtuse, acute or acuminate, hirsute, the terminal leaflets sometimes lobed; stipules 5-8 x 3-4 mm, falcate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, peltately fixed; stipels linear. Racemes axillary, capitate, long peduncled, 2-6-flowered. Calyx-lobes c. 2 mm long, ovate-triangular, hairy. Corolla yellow. Pods 2.5-5 cm long, linear-oblong, terete, clothed with ferruginous hairs, 4-10-seeded. Seeds 2.5-3 mm long, greyish brown.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The seeds are said to be a traditional source of cures for paralysis, rheumatism, coughs, fevers and liver ailments.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Mirtillin
Ascorbigen
daidzein
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 :