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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MS043 : Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 145  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Mucuna Adans. - mucuna
Species : Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. - velvet bean
Plant Location in Melghat : On thickets and hedges,mostly along stream banks  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status : Endemic  
Plant Family : Fabaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Khajkuyari, Velvet bean, Cowitch, Cowhage, Kapikachu, Nescafe, Sea bean • Hindi: Kiwach • Marathi: Khaj-kuiri • Malayalam: Naicorna • Nepali: Kauso • Telugu: Pilliadugu • Kannada: Nayisonanguballi • Bengali: Akolchi • Tamil: Punaippidukkan
 
Synonym : Carpogon capitatus Roxb.
Carpogon niveus Roxb.
Carpopogon capitatus Roxb.
Carpopogon niveum Roxb.
Carpopogon pruriens (L.) Roxb.
Dolichos pruriens L.
Macranthus cochinchinensis Lour.
Marcanthus cochinchinense Lour.
Mucuna aterrima (Piper & Tracy) Holland.
Mucuna atrocarpa F.P.Metcalf.
Mucuna axillaris Baker.
Mucuna bernieriana Baill.
Mucuna capitata Wight & Arn.
Mucuna cochinchinense (Lour.) A.Chev.
Mucuna cochinchinensis (Lour.) A.Chev.
Mucuna deeringiana (Bort) Merr.
Mucuna esquirolii H. Lév.
Mucuna esquirolii H.Lev.
Mucuna hassjoo (Piper & Tracy) Mansf.
Mucuna hirsuta Wight & Arn.
Mucuna luzoniensis Merr.
Mucuna lyonii Merr.
Mucuna martinii H.Lev. & Vaniot.
Mucuna minima Haines.
Mucuna nivea (Roxb.) DC.
Mucuna nivea (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.
Mucuna prurita (L.) Hook.
Mucuna prurita Wight.
Mucuna sericophylla Perkins.
Mucuna utilis Wight.
Mucuna velutina Hassk.
Negretia mitis Blanco.
Stizolobium aterrimum Piper & Tracy.
Stizolobium capitatum (Roxb.) Kuntze.
Stizolobium cochinchinense (Lour.) Burk.
Stizolobium deeringianum Bort.
Stizolobium hassjoo Piper & Tracy.
Stizolobium hirsutum (Wight & Arn.) Kuntze.
Stizolobium niveum (Roxb.) Kuntze.
Stizolobium pruriens (L.) Medik.
Stizolobium pruritum (Wight) Piper.
Stizolobium utile (Wall. ex Wight) Ditmer.
Stizolobium velutinum (Hassk.) Piper & Tracy.
Description : Climbing herb, young branches densely pubescent, becoming glabrous. Leaf trifoliolate, petiole 2-40 cm long, leaflet 4.8-19 cm long, 3.5-16.5 cm broad, obovate, elliptic, rhomboid or ovate, lateral leaflets very oblique, acute or acuminate, pubescent on both sides; petiolule 2-3 mm long; stipules c. 5 mm long. Inflorescence an axillary raceme, 15.0-.30 cm long, flowers single or 2-3 together. Bracts 12.5 mm long; pedicel 2.5-5:O mm long. Calyx 7.5-9 mm long, silky, teeth equal or longer than the tube. Corolla purple. Vexillum 1.5 cm long. Keel 2.5-3.8 cm long, Fruit 5-6.3 cm long, not winged or plaited, with a longitudinal rib running the length of each valve, pubescent, hairs brown and irritating, 5-6- seeded. Fl.Per.: November-March.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Skin diseases, Antibiotoic, Antioxidant, Parkinson's disease, Diabetes, nervous disorders and arthritis
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Seeds: L-dopa
Phytic acid
Linoleic acid
tetrahydroisoquinolines
tryptamine
5-hydroxytryptamine
(Alkaloids): Mucunine
mucunadine
prurienine
prurieninine
Reference : ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID :

~ Omolola Temitope Fatokun, Tosin Ejiro Wojuola, Kevwe Benefit Esievo and Oluyemisi Folashade Kunle; "Medicinal plants used in the management of Asthma: A review"; EJPMR (2016); 3(7): 82-92 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID :