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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MS037 : Desmodium laxiflorum DC.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 127  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Desmodium Desv
Species : Desmodium laxiflorum DC.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status : Rare  
Plant Family : Fabaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Lepati, Loose Flowered Desmodium • Manipuri: Porong Khok Manbi • Marathi: asud, bhut-sheura, jangli-ganja • Tamil: Atotti • Malayalam: Orila • Telugu: Antunthalu, Cheppa Thatla • Kannada: otte gida • Konkani: jangli ganja • Nepali: kuro jhar • Sanskrit: parsniparn
 
Synonym : Desmodium diffusum DC.
Desmodium incanum sensu auct.
Desmodium laxiflorum var. formosense Ohwi
Desmodium laxiflorum subsp. parvifolium H. Ohashi & T.T. Chen
Desmodium macrophyllum Desv.
Desmodium scabrellum Miq.
Desmodium unibotryosum C. Chen & X.J. Cui
Hedysarum diffusum Roxb.
Meibomia laxiflora (DC.) Kuntze
Desmodium recurvatum (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.
Desmodium rottleri (Spreng.) G.Don
Hedysarum recurvatum Roxb.
Description : Subshrubs or shrubs, erect, 30-120 cm tall. Young branch­lets with adpressed and minute hooked hairs. Leaves 3-folio­late; petiole 1.5-4 cm; terminal leaflet blade ovate or ovate-elliptic, 9-19 × 3-8 cm, abaxially densely yellow sericeous, adaxially sparsely adpressed hairy, lateral veins 9-12, apex shortly acuminate. Racemes terminal and axillary, often 2 axil­lary, to 28 cm; rachis pubescent intermixed with minute hooked hairs, 2-7-flowered, fascicled. Pedicel 5-10 mm, densely hairy as rachis. Calyx densely villous; upper lobes entire or nearly so at apex. Corolla white to violet, 4-7 mm; standard broadly obo­vate or orbicular; wings auriculate and clawed; keel clawed. Legume linear, 2-6 cm, with dense, minute, hooked hairs, 4-12-jointed, both sutures nearly not constricted between articles; articles oblong. Fl. Aug-Oct, fr. Oct-Nov. 2n = 22.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-pyretic
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : apigenin
taxifolin
pentacosanyl-D-glucopyranoside
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :