Desmodium laxiflorum DC.
Desmodium laxiflorum DC.
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 |
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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 | : Desmodium Desv |
Species | : Desmodium laxiflorum DC. |