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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH047 : Crotalaria mysorensis Roth.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 118  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Crotalaria L. - rattlebox
Species : Crotalaria mysorensis Roth - rattlebox
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Leguminosae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Crotalaria decasperma Naik.
Crotalaria hirsuta Roxb.
Crotalaria stipulacea Roxb.
Description : Erect herb, c. 30-60 cm tall, branches pilose, hairs long, spreading. Leaf simple, subsessile, c. 2.5-8.0 cm long, c. 4.5-13 mm broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, pubescent, hairs silky, long, spreading; stipules c. 6-10 mm long. Inflorescence a 6-9-flowered terminal raceme. Bract foliaceous, lanceolate, pilose; bracteoles c. 6-7 mm long, beneath the calyx, pilose. Calyx 1.2-1.6 cm long, pilose, hairs long, spreading; upper segments lanceolate, lower linear. Corolla not exserted. Fruit c. 1.8-3.2 cm long, inflated, glabrous when ripe, 20-30-seeded. Fl.Per.: October.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :