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