Crotalaria linifolia L.f.
MH045 : Crotalaria linifolia L.f.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 116 |
| Synonym | : | Crotalaria caespitosa Roxb.;
Crotalaria diffusa Wight & Arn.;
Crotalaria linifolia var. pygmaea Yamam.;
Crotalaria linifolia var. tecta (B.Heyne)K.K.N.Nair;
Crotalaria tecta B.Heyne; |
| Plant Common Name | : | narrow-leaved crotalaria |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae / Leguminosae |
| Description | : | Much branched herbs, up to 50 cm high; stems terete, pubescent. Leaves simple, 1.0-2.3 x 0.4-1.2 cm, oblong-obovate or obovate, cuneate at base, obtuse, rounded or retuse and slightly mucronate at apex, glabrous or glabrescent above, sericeo-pubescent beneath, margins involute, lateral nerves 3-6 pairs; subcoriaceous, up to 2.5 cm long; petioles 0.5-1.5 mm long, pubescent; stipules absent. Racemes terminal; peduncles 2-9 cm long, stout with few extra bracts. Flowers 3-7, 1.3-1.4 cm across; pedicels 2-3 mm long, pubescent, stout; bracts linear, 1.0-1.5 mm long pubescent; bracteoles 2, linear, ca 1.5 mm long, with few hairs. Calyx 5-lobed, tube ca 2 mm long, lobes 10.5-11.0 x 1-3 mm, piloso-pubescent, margins ciliate, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-lobed, lobes oblong-lanceolate, subacute at apex, divided to less than one fourth of its length, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, divided to more than half of its length. Petals pale-yellow, equal to calyx or rarely very scarcely exserted; standard orbicular, 9-10 x 8-10 mm, retuse at apex, glabrous, claw 1.5 mm long, woolly; wing petals obovate or oblong, 8-10 x 2.5-3 mm, obtuse at apex, ridges to about half of its breadth, claw 1.0-1.5 mm long, woolly; keel petals ovate, 12.5-13.0 x ca 4.5 mm, margins ciliate, beak ca 4.5 mm long, straight, twisted. Staminal sheath 3-4 mm long; free filaments 2.5-5.0 mm long; anthers dimorphic, longer anthers linear-oblong, 2.5-3.0 mm long; shorter anthers, ovoid, 0.5-1.0 mm long. Ovary subsessile, oblong, ca 5 x 1 mm, narrowed above, glabrous; style 10-11 mm long, pilose throughout the length; stigma flat; ovules 22-44. Pods sessile, oblong, 1.3-1.5 x 0.6-0.7 cm, glabrous, brown; seeds 10-20. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/245105 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Equisetopsida |
| Subclass | : Rosidae |
| Order | : Fabales |
| Family | : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family |
| Genus | : Crotalaria L. - rattlebox |
| Species | : Crotalaria linifolia L.f. |