MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH053 : Galactia tenuiflora (Willd.)Wight & Arn. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 132 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In Dhargad,Bori, Koktu | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Galactia obcordata (Baill.)Verdc. Galactia sericea var. phrynoides DC. Glycine tenuiflora Willd. Teramnus obcordatus Baill. |
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| Description : | Herbs, perennial, climbing. Stems puberulent to densely villous with grayish white or grayish yellow hairs. Petiolules ca. 2 mm; stipels subulate, 1-1.5 mm; leaflets elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, 2-7 × 1.3-4 cm, papery, sparsely puberulent to densely villous abaxially, sparsely puberulent to subglabrous adaxially, lateral veins 4-8 pairs, slender, slightly raised on both surfaces, veinlets reticulate, conspicuous on both surfaces, base and apex rounded, apex sometimes emarginate, mucronate. Racemes axillary; rachis slender, 2-20 cm. Flowers solitary or often 2-4 clustered at nodes of rachis. Calyx ca. 7 mm, subglabrous to pubescent, tube ca. 3 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate, apex acuminate. Corolla light blue or pink; standard obovate, ca. 10.5 × 7 mm, base attenuate, with 2 small auricles, apex rounded; wings oblong, ca. 9 × 2 mm, base with a pointed auricle; keel as long as or longer than wings, slightly curved on back, base with a small auricle. Legumes linear-oblong, 2-6.5 × 0.6-0.7 cm, puberulent to villous at first, glabrescent. Seeds brown, reniform, slightly compressed, 2-3.5 × 3-5 mm, smooth. Fl. and fr. Jul-Dec. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | anti-dote for scorpion sting | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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