MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH413 : Melilotus indica (L.) All. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Indian Sweet Clover, Yellow sweet clover, Small Melilot, Ban methi, Morila, Senji methi, Ran methi, Ban methi, Ban Methi, Vanamethika, Methi ghans, sweet clover (or sweet-clover), sour clover (sour-clover, sourclover), Indian sweet-clover, annual yellow sweetclover, Bokhara clover, small-flowered sweet clover, common melilot, small-flowered melilot, small melilot, sweet melilot, Californian lucerne and Hexham scent. | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Melilotus indicus (L.) All. Melilotus bonplandii Ten. Melilotus indicus subsp. permixtus (Jord.) Rouy Melilotus melilotus-indica Asch. & Graebn. [Spelling variant] Melilotus melilotus-indicus Asch. & Graebn. Melilotus officinalis sensu Bojer Melilotus parviflora Desf. [Spelling variant] Melilotus parviflorus Desf. Melilotus permixtus Jord. Melilotus tommasinii Jord. Sertula indica (L.) Kuntze Trifolium melilotus indicus L. Trifolium indica L. [Spelling variant] Trifolium indicum L. Trifolium melilotus L. Trifolium melilotus var. indicum L. Trifolium melilotus-indica L. |
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| Description : | an annual herb with hairless stem, spreading or erect, 10-60 cm. The flowers and leaves have a mild perfume scented fragrance, hence the common name. Leaves are trifoliate, leaflets 1-2.5 cm, inverted lance-shaped to wedge-shaped-obovate, generally sharply toothed on the broader part. Yellow flowers appear in slender, compact racemes that are 1-2 inches in length. Flowers have a 1-1.5 mm long sepal cup, and are 2.5-3 mm long, yellow in color. Nine filaments are fused, 1 free. Flowering: January-March. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Seeds are made into a soup and used in the treatment of bowel complaints and infantile Diarrhea. The plant is used externally as a poultice or plaster on swellings. The plant contains coumarin, which is an anticoagulant. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | catechin Epicatechin taxifolin quercetin quercetin 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside quercetin 3-O-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside isorhamnetin 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside isorhamnetin 3-O-beta-D-rutinoside |
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| Reference : | ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID : |
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