Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH071 : Cassia mimosoides DC.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 173

Synonym : Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene, Cassia angustissima Lam.; Cassia nictitans "sensu Stickman, non L."; Cassia procumbens "sensu Stickman, non L."; Cassia sensitiva Roxb.

Plant Common Name : feather-leaved cassia, fish-bone cassia, Japanese tea, mountain flat-bean, tea senna, patwa ghas, lajri, chinchini, pivala lajalu

Plant Family : Caesalpiniaceae / Fabaceae / Leguminosae

Description : Glabrous shrubs or small trees, up to 5 m tall; branches green or farinose-green, with scattered, prickles. Leaves compound; rachis ca. 15-30 cm long; stipules subulate, caducous; petiolules short; pinnae 6-9 pairs; leaflets 8-12 pairs, sessile, opposite; lamina ca. 1.5-2 x 0.8-1 cm, obovate-oblong, obliquely rounded at base, emarginate or mucronate at apex, entire, glaborus. Inflorescences in broad racemes, terminal and axillary; pedicels articulate near top; Flowers ca. 4 cm across, yellowish orange; calyx glabrous, lowest sepal cucullate; petals 4, subequal, round, crisped, distinctly clawed. Pods ca. 5-8 x 1-2 cm, oblong, straight, beaked, flattened. Seeds 8-10, blackish, retuangular.

Plant Location in Melghat : On the margins of roadside ponds etc.

Medicinal Use / Activity : AntiDiarrheal, stomachic, used for colic, Milk decoction used in dysentery, Entire plant used as remedy for facial eruptions, Roots given for stomach spasms. Anti-Ulcer / Leaves, Anti-cancer(Wozniak et al., 2015)

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Emodin; luteolin; 1,3-benzenediol; oleanolic acid; (R)-artabotriol; alpha-L-rhamnose; Beta-sitosterol; daucosterol; physcion; physcion-9-antrhone; emodine-9-anthrone; physcion 10,10-bianthrone; chrysophanol; physcion; emodin;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3):

Beta-sitosterol;

Luteolin;

Oleanolic Acid;

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/264745

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

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 : Caesalpiniaceae / Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Cassia - sensitive pea
Species : Cassia mimosoides DC.

Cassia mimosoides DC.
Cassia mimosoides DC.
Cassia mimosoides DC.
Cassia mimosoides DC.