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MS042 : Moghania lineata (L.) Kuntze

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 144  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Moghania
Species : Moghania lineata (L.) Kuntze
Plant Location in Melghat : Chourakund,Rangubeli  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Fabaceae  
 
Plant Common Name :
 
Synonym : Flemingia lineata (L.) Aiton.
Flemingia lineata var. papuana White.
Hedysarum lineatum L.
Description : Shrublets, erect, many branched. Branchlets cylindric, ad­pressed pubescent when young, becoming glabrous or subgla­brous. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate; stipules lanceolate, 0.6-1 cm, apex long mucronate, usually persistent; petiole 0.7-3 cm, wingless, pubescent; leaflets thinly leathery; terminal leaflet obovate to obovate-oblong, 2-5.5 × 0.8-2 cm, both surfaces densely adpressed villous when young, gradually glabrescent, with sparse sessile glands, basal veins 3, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, base cuneate, apex obtuse with mucro; lateral leaflets smaller, obliquely elliptic, sessile or subsessile. Panicles axil­lary or terminal; inflorescence axis 2.5-6.5 cm, slender, villous or clothed with glandular hairs; bracts linear, small, persistent. Flowers 5-7 mm. Calyx pubescent; lobes lanceolate, longer than tube. Corolla longer than calyx; standard almost orbicular, clawed, auriculate; wings oblong, clawed, one with auricle; keel almost semiorbicular, clawed, with inconspicuous auricle on one side, apex mucronate. Legume 8-12 × 5-8 mm, villous. Seeds 2, black, suborbicular, ca. 2 mm in diam. Fl. Dec-Feb, fr. Feb-May.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The ash of this plant is made into paste with coconut oil and applied over the affected area as a treatment for skin diseases.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :