MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MC012 : Teramnus labialis (L. f.) Spreng. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 159 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Frequent along borders of fields | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Climbers | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Leguminosae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Ran Udid, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Glycine labialis L. f. Glycine parviflora Zollinger ex Miq. Kennedya arabica Hochst. ex Benth. Kennedya arabica Benth. [Spelling variant] Bujacia gampsonychia E.Mey. Glycine abyssinica A.Rich. Glycine debilis Aiton Glycine debilis [Dryander in] Aiton Glycine gampsonychia (E.Mey.) Walp. Glycine meyeri Benth. Glycine parviflora Lam. Glycine pentandra Spreng. Glycine subonensis Hayata Glycine warreensis Dalzell Teramnus angustifolius Merr. Teramnus axilliflorus sensu Hauman Teramnus debilis (Aiton) Prain Teramnus parviflorus (Lam.) Spreng. Teramnus repens "sensu Hauman, p.p. |
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| Description : | Extremely variable perennial, twining or prostrate, trailing, some forms stoloniferous, sometimes woody at the base. Stems 0.3-3 m long, slender, often covered with adpressed to spreading white to ferruginous hairs, sometimes glabrescent. Leaflets rounded, elliptic, ovate, obovate, narrowly oblong or lanceolate, (1-) 3-6 (-8) cm long, (0.5-) 2-3.5 (-5) cm wide, emarginate to acuminate at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, glabrous to densely covered with white or ferruginous hairs on both surfaces; petioles 0.9-4 cm long; rachis 1-9 mm long; petiolules ( 2 mm long; stipules narrowly lanceolate, 2-3 mm long. Inflorescence a slender raceme, with few to many flowers along the 0.3-10 cm long rachis; peduncle 0.8-3 cm long. Calyx tube glabrescent or hairy, ribbed, 1-3 mm long, lobes lanceolate, 0.8-3 mm long, acute, usually densely hairy; standard white, pink or mauve, cream to pale salmon, sometimes with deeper coloured splash, obovate, 5 mm long, 3.5 mm wide. Pods linear, 2.5-6 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, glabrescent to densely covered with adpressed or spreading hairs; beak 2-3 mm long; 7-12 seeds/pod. Seeds yellow-brown to dark purplish-brown, oblong or almost cylindrical, smooth or covered with a granular encrustation, 2-3 mm long, 1.2-2 mm across; hilum minute, aril slightly developed, white with a small scale-like extension. 110,000-370,000 seeds/kg. Most clearly distinguished from morphologically similar species of Glycine and Neonotonia by the distinctly curved tip on the pod of Teramnus. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | used for treating fatigue, muscle wasting, Vata and Pitta imbalance disorders, bleeding disorders etc. Used in rheumatism, tuberculosis, nervous affections, haemoptysis and catarrh. Fruits astringent, stomachic and febrifuge. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Vitexin Bergenin Daidzin |
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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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