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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MS099 : Cassia hirsuta L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 16  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Cassia
Species : Cassia hirsuta L.
Plant Location in Melghat : Semadoh  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Caesalpiniaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Woolly Cassia • Manipuri: Thounam • Mizo: Rulchuk domdawi • Oriya: Bada chakunda • Tamil: Malaiyavarai, Malaiyavaram
 
Synonym : Senna hirsuta (L.)H.S.Irwin & Barneby.
Cassia caracasana Jacq.
Cassia tomentosa Arn.
Cassia venenifera G.Mey.
Ditremexa hirsuta (L.)Britton & Wilson.
Description : Erect undershrubs, densely hirsute all over. Leaves to 18 cm long, usually with 3-5 pairs of leaflets; leaflets 3.5-6 x 2-3.5 cm, ovate or elliptic, base rounded, apex acuminate, silky hairy on both sides; rachis 8-12 cm long, a large black gland on the rachis just below the lowest leaflets; stipules 5-8 mm long, linear-lanceolate. Flowers yellow, c.1.5 cm across, in axillary and terminal few-flowered racemes; pedicels 1-1.4 cm long; bracts linear. Sepals 5, 5-8 mm long, oblong, densely hairy without. Petals 5, 0.8-1 cm long, obovate, obtuse. Stamens 10 , unequal, 6 or 7 fertile. Ovary 2-2.5 mm long, tomentose; ovules many; style glabrous. Pods 10-15 x 0.6-0.8 cm, linear, subterete, curved, densely hirsute. Seeds many, c. 3 x 2.5 mm, orbicular, compressed, light brown.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The leaves are used medicinally for treating kidney disorders and herpes. An infusion is an effective remedy for renal calculi. An infusion of the leaves is applied externally to treat skin disorders and cracked nipples. The root is tonic. A tincture of the root is rubbed onto rheumatic areas.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : benzyl benzoate
alpha-cadinol
2,5-dimethoxy-p-cymene
beta-caryophyllene
phytol
pentadecanal
Reference : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Ethnomedicinal plants used in skin treatment by Korkus of Melghat Dist. Amravati (MS), India"; Life Sciences Leaflets (2011); 178-191 PMID :