Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS037 : Desmodium laxiflorum DC.

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 127

Synonym : Desmodium diffusum DC.; Desmodium incanum sensu auct.; Desmodium laxiflorum var. formosense Ohwi; Desmodium laxiflorum subsp. parvifolium H. Ohashi & T.T. Chen; Desmodium macrophyllum Desv.; Desmodium scabrellum Miq.; Desmodium unibotryosum C. Chen & X.J. Cui; Hedysarum diffusum Roxb.; Meibomia laxiflora (DC.) Kuntze; Desmodium recurvatum (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.; Desmodium rottleri (Spreng.) G.Don; Hedysarum recurvatum Roxb.;

Plant Common Name : Lepati, Loose Flowered Desmodium • Manipuri: Porong Khok Manbi • Marathi: asud, bhut-sheura, jangli-ganja • Tamil: Atotti • Malayalam: Orila • Telugu: Antunthalu, Cheppa Thatla • Kannada: otte gida • Konkani: jangli ganja • Nepali: kuro jhar • Sanskrit: parsniparn

Plant Family : Fabaceae

Description : Subshrubs or shrubs, erect, 30-120 cm tall. Young branch­lets with adpressed and minute hooked hairs. Leaves 3-folio­late; petiole 1.5-4 cm; terminal leaflet blade ovate or ovate-elliptic, 9-19 × 3-8 cm, abaxially densely yellow sericeous, adaxially sparsely adpressed hairy, lateral veins 9-12, apex shortly acuminate. Racemes terminal and axillary, often 2 axil­lary, to 28 cm; rachis pubescent intermixed with minute hooked hairs, 2-7-flowered, fascicled. Pedicel 5-10 mm, densely hairy as rachis. Calyx densely villous; upper lobes entire or nearly so at apex. Corolla white to violet, 4-7 mm; standard broadly obo­vate or orbicular; wings auriculate and clawed; keel clawed. Legume linear, 2-6 cm, with dense, minute, hooked hairs, 4-12-jointed, both sutures nearly not constricted between articles; articles oblong. Fl. Aug-Oct, fr. Oct-Nov. 2n = 22.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-pyretic

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: apigenin; taxifolin; pentacosanyl-D-glucopyranoside;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2):

Apigenin;

Taxifolin;

Plant's Current Status : Rare

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=2&taxon_id=200012103 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229505 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Loose%20Flowered%20Desmodium.html - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288369679

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 : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Desmodium Desv
Species : Desmodium laxiflorum DC.

Desmodium laxiflorum DC.
Desmodium laxiflorum DC.
Desmodium laxiflorum DC.