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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MS070 : Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) O. Ktze. ex Merr.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Flemingia Roxb. ex W.T. Aiton - flemingia
Species : Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) O. Ktze. ex Merr.
Plant Location in Melghat : Nearby areas of Raipur village  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status : Rare  
Plant Family : Leguminosae  
 
Plant Common Name : Large-Leaf Flemingia • Nepali: Bhatabaasee, Bhatamaase
 
Synonym : Flemingia prostrata Roxb.
Crotalaria macrophylla Willd.
Flemingia macrophylla var. nana Sasaki.
Flemingia angustifolia Roxb.
Flemingia bhottea Buch.-Ham.
Flemingia capitata Buch.-Ham.
Flemingia congesta Roxb. ex W. T. Aiton.
Flemingia latifolia Benth.
Flemingia nana Roxb.
Flemingia prostrata Roxb.
Flemingia semialata W.T.Aiton.
Moghania cumingiana (Benth.) Kuntze.
Moghania macrophylla (Willd.) Kuntze.
Moghania semialata (W.T.Aiton) Mukerjee.
Description : Erect shrubs; branchlets trigonous, adpressed tomentose. Leaflets subequal, 5-14 x 2-5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, base cuneate to rounded, apex acute to acuminate, tomentose along the nerves on both surfaces or glabrescent above, basally 3-nerved; petiole to 7 cm long, narrowly winged. Racemes axillary, clustered or single, 2.5-5.5 cm long, villous. Flowers 7-10 mm long; pedicels c. 2 mm long; bracts 4-7 mm long, lanceolate. Calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, the lower longest, much exceeding the tube, pubescent. Petals reddish; standard 7-8 mm long, oblong-obovate; wings and keels long-clawed. Pods 0.8-1.2 x 0.4-0.6 cm, oblong, turgid, covered with powdery red coating.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The leaves are febrifuge and are used for treating postpartum fever and to treat paralysis and pain in the joints. A decoction of the leaves is used to bathe sores and swellings. The entire plant is given to relieve stomach-ache. A decoction of the root is drunk as a treatment for spermatorrhoea
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Genistein
flemichin D
lespedezaflavanone A
ouratea-catechin
fleminone
flemiphyllin
fleminginin
flemingichromone
flemingichalcone
Reference : ~ Dhole PA and Bhogaonkar PY; "Additions to the Fabaceae of Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR), Maharashtra, India"; Int. J. of Life Sciences (2015); 3(3): 260-262 PMID :