Crotalaria spectabilis Roth - showy rattlebox
Crotalaria spectabilis Roth - showy rattlebox
Crotalaria spectabilis Roth - showy rattlebox
MS034 : Crotalaria spectabilis Roth.
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 122 |
| Synonym | : | Crotalaria altipes Raf.; Crotalaria cuneifolia (Forssk.) Schrank; Crotalaria cuneifolia (Forssk.) "Schrank, p.p.B"; Crotalaria lechnaultii DC. [Spelling variant]; Crotalaria leschenaultii Macfad.; Crotalaria leschenaultii DC.; Crotalaria macrophylla Kurtz; Crotalaria macrophylla Weinm.; Crotalaria macrophylla Wienmann; Crotalaria retzii Hitchc.; Crotalaria sericea Retz.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Showy Rattlepod, Greater rattlepod, Showy crotalaria, Showy rattlebox • Hindi: Sanni, Ghungri, Dhundhuni, Jhunjhunia • Marathi: dingala, khulkhula • Kannada: Kaadu senabu • Bengali: Pipuli jhunjhun |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae |
| Description | : | An erect biennial undershrub upto 1.2 m tall with glabrous, furrowed branches. Leaves 5-15 cm long and variable in width, oblong-lanceolate, apex acute or subacute, mucronate, base cuneate, glabrous above, fine-silky beneath; petioles 1.6-3 mm long; stipules large, ovate-lanceolate, leafy, persistent. Flowers yellow with a purple tinge, borne in elongated 16-50 flowered terminal racemes 25-30 cm long; pedicels longer than the calyx with a large foliaceous ovate-acute bract at the base of each pedicel and a pair of minute bracts on each pedicel below the middle; calyx c. 1.3 cm long, tube campanulate, upper teeth large, triangular, acute, c. 6 mm broad at the base, the lower 3 teeth smaller and less deeply cut, linear-lanceolate, acute; corolla with a broadly ovate standard with a strong midrib at the back. Fruit(pod) stalked, linear-oblong, 2.5-5 cm long glabrous; seeds 20-30. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Stream & River banks & on wet ground |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The plant is used in the treatment of scabies and impetigo. The seed and other above-ground parts contain the pyrrolizidine alkaloid monocrotaline, which has been shown to lower blood pressure but is also toxic. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: pyrrolizidine; monocrotaline; a-carotene; triacontane; 22,23-dihydrostigmasterol; sericine; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Stigmasterol; |
| 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/229376
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Showy%20Rattlepod.html
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Crotalaria+spectabilis
- http://www.mpbd.info/plants/crotalaria-spectabilis.php |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); 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 spectabilis Roth - showy rattlebox |