MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH071 : Cassia mimosoides DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 173 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On the margins of roadside ponds etc. | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Caesalpiniaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | feather-leaved cassia, fish-bone cassia, Japanese tea, mountain flat-bean, tea senna, patwa ghas, lajri, chinchini, pivala lajalu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene, Cassia angustissima Lam. Cassia nictitans "sensu Stickman, non L." Cassia procumbens "sensu Stickman, non L." Cassia sensitiva Roxb. |
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| Description : | Glabrous shrubs or small trees, up to 5 m tall; branches green or farinose-green, with scattered, prickles. Leaves compound; rachis ca. 15-30 cm long; stipules subulate, caducous; petiolules short; pinnae 6-9 pairs; leaflets 8-12 pairs, sessile, opposite; lamina ca. 1.5-2 x 0.8-1 cm, obovate-oblong, obliquely rounded at base, emarginate or mucronate at apex, entire, glaborus. Inflorescences in broad racemes, terminal and axillary; pedicels articulate near top; Flowers ca. 4 cm across, yellowish orange; calyx glabrous, lowest sepal cucullate; petals 4, subequal, round, crisped, distinctly clawed. Pods ca. 5-8 x 1-2 cm, oblong, straight, beaked, flattened. Seeds 8-10, blackish, retuangular. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | AntiDiarrheal, stomachic, used for colic, Milk decoction used in dysentery, Entire plant used as remedy for facial eruptions, Roots given for stomach spasms. Anti-Ulcer / Leaves, Anti-cancer(Wozniak et al., 2015) | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Emodin luteolin 1,3-benzenediol oleanolic acid (R)-artabotriol alpha-L-rhamnose Beta-sitosterol daucosterol physcion physcion-9-antrhone emodine-9-anthrone physcion 10,10-bianthrone chrysophanol physcion emodin |
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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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