Moghania lineata (L.) Kuntze
Moghania lineata (L.) Kuntze
Moghania lineata (L.) Kuntze
MS042 : Moghania lineata (L.) Kuntze
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 144 |
| Synonym | : | Flemingia lineata (L.) Aiton.;
Flemingia lineata var. papuana White.;
Hedysarum lineatum L.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae |
| Description | : | Shrublets, erect, many branched. Branchlets cylindric, adpressed pubescent when young, becoming glabrous or subglabrous. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate; stipules lanceolate, 0.6-1 cm, apex long mucronate, usually persistent; petiole 0.7-3 cm, wingless, pubescent; leaflets thinly leathery; terminal leaflet obovate to obovate-oblong, 2-5.5 × 0.8-2 cm, both surfaces densely adpressed villous when young, gradually glabrescent, with sparse sessile glands, basal veins 3, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, base cuneate, apex obtuse with mucro; lateral leaflets smaller, obliquely elliptic, sessile or subsessile. Panicles axillary or terminal; inflorescence axis 2.5-6.5 cm, slender, villous or clothed with glandular hairs; bracts linear, small, persistent. Flowers 5-7 mm. Calyx pubescent; lobes lanceolate, longer than tube. Corolla longer than calyx; standard almost orbicular, clawed, auriculate; wings oblong, clawed, one with auricle; keel almost semiorbicular, clawed, with inconspicuous auricle on one side, apex mucronate. Legume 8-12 × 5-8 mm, villous. Seeds 2, black, suborbicular, ca. 2 mm in diam. Fl. Dec-Feb, fr. Feb-May. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Chourakund,Rangubeli |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The ash of this plant is made into paste with coconut oil and applied over the affected area as a treatment for skin diseases. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| 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=242322686
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Flemingia+lineata
- http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/ild_27140
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/264611
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20503477 |
| 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 | : Moghania |
| Species | : Moghania lineata (L.) Kuntze |