MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS032 : Crotalaria juncea L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 115 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Among tall grasses,in fields also cultivated on a minor scale | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | San,Boru, Sunn Hemp, Indian hemp, Madras hemp • Bengali: Shon • Hindi: Jhunjhunia, masina, San • Kannada: Pundi • Malayalam: Chanaka • Manipuri: Oo Hawai • Marathi: Dhakti ghagri, Ghagharu, San • Sanskrit: Dhanahari, Dirghapallava, Dirghashakla • Tamil: Vakkunnar • Telugu: Gilaka, Shanama • Urdu: San | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Crotalaria benghalensis Lam. Crotalaria fenestrata Sims. Crotalaria ferestrata Sims. Crotalaria porrecta Wall. Crotalaria sericea Willd. Crotalaria tenuifolia Roxb. Crotalaria viminea Wall. |
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| Description : | Annual erect herbs to 2.3 m tall; stems striate, silky-pubescent. Leaves 3-8 x 0.5-1.5 cm, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, base usually acute, apex obtuse to subacute, apiculate, clothed on both sides with appressed hairs; petiole to 3 mm long; stipules minute. Inflorescence teminal, racemose, many-flowered, 15-30 cm long. Flowers yellow, 1.5-2 cm long; pedicels c. 5 mm long; bracts 3-4 mm long, lanceolate; bracteoles linear. Calyx c. 1.8 cm long, fulvous hairy, teeth linear-lanceolate. Petals 1.5-2 cm long; standard c. 2 cm long and broad, ovate, veined red, silky without; wings shorter than keel and standard. Pods sessile, 2.5-3x 1-1.3 cm, oblong-cylindrical, fulvous silky hairy. Seeds 8-15, c. 4 mm long, obliquely-cordiform. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Skin diseases. The seeds are said to purify the blood and are used to treat impetigo and psoriasis. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Riddelline seneciphylline senecionine trichodesmine chodesmine isohemijunceines trichodesmine junceine palmitic acid stearic acid oleic acid linoleic acid linolenic acid myristic acid arachidic acid behenic acid trichodesmine juncein senecionine seneciphylline quercetin phytoagglutinin corchorin apigenin-7-glucuronide apigenin-7,4-O-di-glucoside a-hydroxynorleucine |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
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