MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS049 : Cassia obtusifolia L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 174 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Caesalpiniaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Chakwar, Chinese senna, American sicklepod, sicklepod, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Senna obtusifolia (L.)H.S.Irwin & Barneby. Cassia humilis Collad. Cassia toroides Raf. Diallobus falcatus Raf. Diallobus uniflorus Raf. Senna toroides Roxb. |
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| Description : | Erect herb or shrub 0.6–2.5 m high. Leaves 5–13 cm long, with a cylindrical gland between each of 1–2 pairs of leaflets; stipules linear; leaflets 3 pairs, obovate, (1–)1.5–6 x (0.5–)1–4 cm, subglabrous to pubescent. Flowers 1–2 on generally very short axillary peduncles; pedicels (0.5–)1.5–3.5(–4.5 in fruit) cm long. Sepals rounded at apex. Petals yellow, obovate, 1–2 cm long. Stamens: 3 lower ones longest with the anthers narrowed into a neck towards their tips, 4 somewhat smaller and 3 very small. Pods linear, straight, or curved, slightly angular in section, (6–)13–23 x 0.4–0.6(–0.7) cm, dehiscent, glabrescent. Seeds many, longitudinally arranged, brown, subrhombic or ovoid, 4.5–6.5 x 2–4 mm, with a very narrow areole on each face. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Anti-cancer (Elshamy et al., 2010) | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Emodin, (Seeds)8-hydroxy-1,7-dimethoxy-3-methylanthracene-9,10-dione-2-O-beta-d-glucoside, rubrufusarin |
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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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