MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH065 : Tephrosia pumila (Lam.)Pers. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 156 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Frequent on hill slopes and in open grasslands | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cracca dichotoma (Desv.) Kuntze Galega procumbens Buch.-Ham. Galega pumila Lam. Tephrosia commersoni Scott-Elliot Tephrosia dichotoma Desv. Tephrosia hirsuta Schumach. & Thonn. Tephrosia procumbens sensu auct. Tephrosia procumbens (Buch.-Ham.) Gamble Tephrosia timoriensis DC. Tephrosia uniflora "sensu Hepper, p.p." (Misapplied) Tephrosia procumbens (Ham.) Benth. |
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| Description : | Annual or short lived perennial, branches procumbent, stem pilose. Leaf imparipinnate, petiole c. 3-10 mm long, rachis up to 4.5 cm long; leaflets 7-13, c. 4-20 mm long, up to 8 mm wide, oblong or oblanceolate truncate to retuse, glabrous or pubescent above, pilose below; stipules up to 4 mm long. Inflorescence terminal or leaf-opposed, a 1-3-flowered raceme. Bract 2-3 mm long. Pedicel 2.5-4 mm long. Calyx hispid, tube c. 1.5 mm long, teeth 2.5-3.5 mm long. Corolla white, pale-pink or purplish. Vexillum c. 6-10 mm long. Fruit 3.5-4 cm long, c. 4 mm broad, pubescent, curved towards the tip, 8-14-seeded. Fl.Per.: Throughout the year. | |||||||||||||
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| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Praecansone A Praecansone B Seed pods: Pumilaisoflavones A Pumilaisoflavones B Pumilaisoflavones C Pumilaisoflavones D Pumilanol Tephrinone Beta-hydroxychalcone |
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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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