MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH414 : Tephrosia villosa Sensu auct. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Road to Ghatang | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Red List Category - Least Concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Hoary Tephrosia | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Tephrosia luzoniensis Vogel Tephrosia incana, Tephrosia hirta Cracca villosa L. Tephrosia villosa var incana (Roxb.) Baker |
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| Description : | Much branched annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; branchlets densely pubescent with white appressed-hairs. Leaves imparipinnate, to 6 cm long; leaflets 9-15, 1-2 x 0.5-1 cm, obovate or oblanceolate, base acute to cuneate, apex obtuse or retuse, glabrous above and sericeous below; stipules 3-6 mm long, subulate. Inflorescence pseudoracemose, terminal or leaf-opposed, to 7 cm long. Flowers 8-10 mm long, subsessile; bracts linear-deltoid. Calyx c. 5 mm long; lobes filiform, ciliate. Petals pink or white; standard 8-10 mm long, orbicular; wings to 1 cm long, oblong-obovate; keels c. 8 mm long, beaked. Pods 2.5-3.5 x 0.4-0.5 cm, oblong-falcate, densely villous, 5-8-seeded. Seeds c. 3 x 2 mm, reniform, dark brown. Perennial Herbs; branches white appressedly hairy. Flowers bright purple in fascicled racemes. Seed rectangular. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The juice of the leaves is given in dropsy. The leaf juice is used to treat dropsy and diabetes. The roots and leaves contain rotenoids. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| 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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