Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS032 : Crotalaria juncea L.

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 115

Synonym : Crotalaria benghalensis Lam.; Crotalaria fenestrata Sims.; Crotalaria ferestrata Sims.; Crotalaria porrecta Wall.; Crotalaria sericea Willd.; Crotalaria tenuifolia Roxb.; Crotalaria viminea Wall.;

Plant Common Name : San,Boru, Sunn Hemp, Indian hemp, Madras hemp • Bengali: Shon • Hindi: Jhunjhunia, masina, San • Kannada: Pundi • Malayalam: Chanaka • Manipuri: Oo Hawai • Marathi: Dhakti ghagri, Ghagharu, San • Sanskrit: Dhanahari, Dirghapallava, Dirghashakla • Tamil: Vakkunnar • Telugu: Gilaka, Shanama • Urdu: San

Plant Family : Fabaceae

Description : Annual erect herbs to 2.3 m tall; stems striate, silky-pubescent. Leaves 3-8 x 0.5-1.5 cm, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, base usually acute, apex obtuse to subacute, apiculate, clothed on both sides with appressed hairs; petiole to 3 mm long; stipules minute. Inflorescence teminal, racemose, many-flowered, 15-30 cm long. Flowers yellow, 1.5-2 cm long; pedicels c. 5 mm long; bracts 3-4 mm long, lanceolate; bracteoles linear. Calyx c. 1.8 cm long, fulvous hairy, teeth linear-lanceolate. Petals 1.5-2 cm long; standard c. 2 cm long and broad, ovate, veined red, silky without; wings shorter than keel and standard. Pods sessile, 2.5-3x 1-1.3 cm, oblong-cylindrical, fulvous silky hairy. Seeds 8-15, c. 4 mm long, obliquely-cordiform.

Plant Location in Melghat : Among tall grasses,in fields also cultivated on a minor scale

Medicinal Use / Activity : Skin diseases. The seeds are said to purify the blood and are used to treat impetigo and psoriasis.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Riddelline; seneciphylline; senecionine; trichodesmine; chodesmine; isohemijunceines; trichodesmine; junceine; palmitic acid; stearic acid; oleic acid; linoleic acid; linolenic acid; myristic acid; arachidic acid; behenic acid; trichodesmine; juncein; senecionine; seneciphylline; quercetin; phytoagglutinin; corchorin; apigenin-7-glucuronide; apigenin-7,4-O-di-glucoside; a-hydroxynorleucine;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3):

Quercetin;

Apigenin;

Palmitic acid;

Plant's Current Status : Common

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229377 - https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/17189 - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Crotalaria+juncea - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sunn%20Hemp.html - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ad27/3ae2f2abc696dd946957b01d87aca4366bdb.pdf

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

~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 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 : Crotalaria L. - rattlebox
Species : Crotalaria juncea L. - sunn hemp

Crotalaria juncea L. - sunn hemp
Crotalaria juncea L. - sunn hemp
Crotalaria juncea L. - sunn hemp
Crotalaria juncea L. - sunn hemp