Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH051 : Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 129

Synonym : Hedysarum stipulaceum Burm.f.; Hedysarum triflorum Linn.;

Plant Common Name : Creeping Tick Trefoil, three-flower beggarweed, tropical trefoil,three-flower beggarweed, matty desmodium, Kudaliya, motha, chipti, ran-methi

Plant Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae

Description : Perennial herb, creeping, branches prostrate, rooting at nodes, pubescent. Leaf trifoliolate, petiole 5-7 mm long, leaflets 5-7 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, obovate, cuneate, truncate or emarginate, glabrous above, pubescent below; stipules 3.5-4.5 mm long, obovate, acuminate. Inflorescence axillary fascicles of 1-5 flowers, bracts ovate, acute, ciliate, pedicel 4.5- 5.0 mm long. Calyx 3.5-4.5 mm long, pubescent, teeth longer than the tube. Corolla 5 mm long, pink or white. Fruit 10-16 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm broad, upper suture straight, lower indented, articles 3-5, as broad as long, puberulous. Fl.Per.: July-August.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Fresh leaves—used internally as galactagogue and for Diarrhea; applied externally to wounds and abscesses. Root—diuretic. Also used for cough, asthma. Dysentery, antitoxic, hepatitis, red eye with in?ammation, lymph infection, anthelmintic action against Ascaris lumbricoides. curing cough, bronchitis and fever

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: alpha-phenylamine; indole-3-acetic acid; tyramine; trigonelline; hypaphorine; N, N-dimethyl tryptophan methyl ester; S-l-stachydrine; 3,4-di-hydroxy phenylethyl trimethyl ammonium cation; choline; betaine; hypaphorine;

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Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200012113

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Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Rosidae
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Desmodium Desv. - ticktrefoil
Species : Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC. - threeflower ticktrefoil

Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC. - threeflower ticktrefoil