Cassia pumila Lam.
Cassia pumila Lam.
Cassia pumila Lam.
MH072 : Cassia pumila Lam.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 176 |
| Synonym | : | Chamaecrista pumila (Lam.) K.Larsen; Cassia prostrata Roxb.; Senna prostrata Roxb.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | dwarf cassia, sarmal, |
| Plant Family | : | Caesalpiniaceae / Fabaceae / Leguminosae |
| Description | : | A short lived, slightly hairy, decumbent or sometimes erect herb or under-shrub, 20-50 (-100) cm tall. Stipules 5-13 mm long, ciliate, persistent; petiole 2-5 mm long, with a slender stiped gland in upper third; rachis 3-4 cm long, glandless, produced into 2-3 mm long mucro. Leaflets 6-25 pairs, linear to linear-oblong, unequal-sided, the larger 7-13 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, glabrous, or with some hairs scattered near or on the midrib, with a rough often purple margin, top obli¬quely rounded, base very obliquely truncate, petiolules absent. Flowers 1-3, peduncle and pedicel c. 2.5-4 (-7) mm long, pubescent. Bracts c. 4 mm long, linear, caducous, acute. Bracteoles 2-3 mm long, acute. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 5-6 mm long. Petals very unequal, narrowly oblong to broadly orbicular and retuse, 3-5 mm long, narrowed towards the base, nearly clawed. Stamens 5, nearly equally deve¬loped. Ovary appressed tomentose, style glabrous, recurved, short, stigma trun¬cate, flat, peltate. Pods flat, thinly pilose, black, not glossy, dehiscent, 2-4.5 cm long, c. 3.5-5 mm across, strap-shaped, 6-16 seeded. Seeds light brown, glossy, smooth, flattened, rhomboid, 3 mm long. Fl. Per.: August-September. |
| 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
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200012030 |
| 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 pumila Lam. |