| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 14 |
| Synonym | : | Arachis fruticosa Retz.;
Hedysarum hamatum Burm.f.;
Stylosanthes bojeri Vogel.;
Stylosanthes flavicans Baker.;
Stylosanthes mucronata Willd.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Shrubby Pensil-Flower, Wild lucerne, Saillekampa, Saali kampa |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae / Leguminosae |
| Description | : | Procumbent herbs or undershrubs; root-stock woody. Stem, peduncles and pedicels loosely villous. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 8-20 x 2.5-5 mm, oblong-elliptic or linear-lanceolate, acute at base and apex, mucronate at tip, pubescent on both sides, ciliate on margins; nerves parallel and close; stipules 8-13 mm long, lanceolate, adnate to base of petiole, sheathing, villous without. Flowers yellow 3-5 in terminal heads; bracts and bracteoles 0.8-1.2 cm long, linear-lanceolate, densely hairy. Calyx lobes 2-4 mm long, densely brown hairy. Petals yellow, 4-6 mm long. Stamens monadelphous. Ovary 2-3 mm long, suborbicular, woolly; style filiform. Pods 5-8 mm long, monoiliform, 1or 2-articulate; articles pilose, reticulate, fully enclosed in calyx, beak curved. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, reniform. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Harisal. Also found in plains |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | treatment of toothache and strengthening of gums, anthelmintic, kidney diseases, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, Hepatoprotective, antihyperglycaemic, antihyperglycaemic and anti-cancer. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Hazaleamidemonoeptixide; Propanic acid; Dodecanoic acid; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD (1998) Addiions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants). Technical Bulletin No. VII. The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat.
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Shrubby%20Pencil_Flower.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/245378
- https://www.feedipedia.org/node/252
- http://www.isca.in/rjcs/Archives/v3/i11/3.ISCA_RJCS_2012_193.pdf
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16647234 |
| 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 : |
| 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 | : Stylosanthes Sw. - pencilflower |
| Species | : Stylosanthes fruticosa (Retz.) Alston. - shrubby pencilflower |
