MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS038 : Indigofera cassioides DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 135 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On hill slopes | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | K-Bholori, Cassia Indigo • Hindi: Saknya, Kathi • Kannada: Chennaata • Konkani: Chimnati • Marathi: Chimnati, Baroli • Oriya: Girel • Telugu: Karkandi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Indigofera arborea Roxb. Indigofera byansghatensis S.N.Biswas Indigofera cassoides DC. Indigofera elliptica Roxb. Indigofera gibsonii Graham Indigofera leptostachya DC. Indigofera pulchella Roxb. Indigofera pulchella var. purpurascens (Roxb.)Haines Indigofera purpurascens Roxb. Indigofera violacea Roxb. |
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| Description : | Shrubs, 1-1.5 m tall. Stems brown, robust, with obvious lenticels; young branches green or red-brown, angular, with appressed white medifixed symmetrically 2-branched trichomes. Stipules linear, caducous. Leaves 5.5-15 cm, 13-21-foliolate; petiole and rachis with sparse appressed medifixed trichomes; petiole 1.1-1.8 cm; rachis adaxially grooved; stipels subulate, ca. 1 mm; petiolules ca. 2 mm, hairy; leaflet blades opposite, subopposite, or rarely alternate, elliptic to obovate, 1-2.4 × 0.7-1.5 cm, both surfaces with appressed white medifixed trichomes, midvein abaxially prominent and adaxially slightly impressed, secondary veins 8-11 on each side of midvein and obvious, base cuneate to rounded, apex obtuse to truncate. Racemes 4-17 cm; peduncle very short, base with persistent bud scales; rachis angular, with appressed brown trichomes; bracts ovate to lanceolate, 2-4 mm, caducous, abaxially with appressed brown to grayish brown trichomes. Pedicel 1-2 mm, hairy. Calyx cup-shaped, 2.5-3.5 mm, outside with sparse appressed white trichomes; teeth triangular, as long as tube. Corolla purple to light purple; standard broadly ovate, ca. 10 × 7-7.5 mm, glabrous, base clawed, apex obtuse; wings 8-9.5 mm, base auriculate and clawed, margin ciliate; keel 9-9.5 mm, outside apically hairy, very shortly spurred, margin ciliate. Stamens 7-9.5 mm; anthers ovoid to ellipsoid, glabrous. Ovary glabrous. Legume cylindric, 2.4-4.5 cm × ca. 4 mm, glabrous; endocarp blotched. Seeds 8-12 per legume, reddish brown, cubic, ca. 2 × 2 mm. Fl. Jan-Mar, fr. Apr-Jun. 2n = 16. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | A decoction of the roots is used in the treatment of coughs. The root is dried, ground into a powder and applied externally in the treatment of pains in the chest. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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