Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS044 : Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W. Wight

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 153

Synonym : Aeschynomene aculeata Schreb.; Aeschynomene bispinosa Jacq.; Aeschynomene spinulosa Roxb.; Coronilla aculeata Willd.; Coronilla aculete Willd. [Spelling variant]; Sesban aculeatus Poir. [Spelling variant]; Sesbania aculeata (Willd.) Pers.; Sesbania aculeata (Willd.) Poir.; Sesbania aculeata var. elatior Prain; Sesbania aculeata var. micrantha Chiov.; Sesbania aegyptiaca sensu Bojer; Sesbania arborescens Kostel.; Sesbania bispinosa var. elatior (Prain) Raizada & Saxena; Sesbania bispinosa var. micrantha (Chiov.) J.B. Gillett;

Plant Common Name : Ransawar,K-Dadhani,G-Ikad, Prickly Sesban • Hindi: Dhaincha, Ikad, Dadon, Daden • Kannada: Dhaincha, Mullu jeenangi • Malayalam: Kedangu • Marathi: Bhuiavali, Chinchani, Kansevari, Ran-Shevri • Tamil: mutcempai, uravi

Plant Family : Fabaceae

Description : Herbs, perennial, suffrutescent, 1-3 m tall. Branches te­rete, slightly with greenish white striations, often with small sparse flattened prickles. Stipules linear-lanceolate, ca. 7 × 1 mm, caducous, glabrous, apex acuminate. Leaves 40-80-folio­late; rachis 13-30 cm, abaxially with sparse prickles, adaxially grooved; stipels acerose, slender; leaflet blades linear-oblong, 10-16 × 2-3 mm, both surfaces with dense appressed purplish brown glands and glabrous, abaxially grayish green, adaxially green, base rounded, apex obtuse and with a mucro. Racemes 5-10 cm, 2-6-flowered; peduncle often with prickles; bracts linear-lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, caducous, with sparse appressed trichomes. Flowers 0.9-1.2 cm. Pedicel 6-8 mm, slender; brac­teoles 2, ovate-lanceolate, caducous, glabrous. Calyx campan­ulate, ca. 4 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, shortly triangular. Corolla yellow; standard subovate, ca. 1 cm, longer than wide, outside with reddish brown dots, with a triangular callus, base tapering into a claw, apex retuse; wings oblong, with long claw, auricu­late at one side; keel long obovate, with a dentiform auricle at base. Stamens 0.9-1.2 cm; anthers obovoid, outer side brown. Pistil linear, as long as stamens; style slender; stigma capitate. Legume dark brown, terete, straight to slightly falcate, 15-22 cm × ca. 3 mm, trabeculate, slightly constricted and with a ca. 5 mm separation between seeds, apical beak 1-1.2 cm. Seeds nu­merous per legume, subterete, ca. 3 × 2 mm; hilum rounded. Fl. and fr. Aug-Dec. 2n = 12, 13, 14.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Roots are used as contraceptive, hepato-protective, anti-helminthic & carminative. It is also used for the cure of tuberculous glands in dysuria, in retention of urine, leucoderma & as an anti-dote in scorpion stings, for the relief of fever, ulcer, diabetes etc. The leaves and flowers are astringent. They are used in he treatment of inflammations, bacterial infections and tumours. They are prepared as poultices for external use or taken as a decoction for internal ailments. The seed, mixed with flour, is used to treat ringworm and other skin diseases and worms. Plant decoction used as antacid and also given in prolonged fever. Seed powder given to induce hunger (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002).

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Pinitol or O-methyl inositol; alpha-ketoglutaric acid; oxaloacetic acid; pyruvic acid;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0):

Plant's Current Status : Endemic, IUCN Red List Category - Least Concern

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve. - Ganesh D. Boddawar, Shashikant C. Dhawale, Shafik S. Shaikh (2016) "Assessment of anti-inflammatory potential of Sesbania bispinosa Linn. leaf extracts and fractions by acute and chronic models" Alexandria Journal of Medicine, 52, 289to293 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/231142 - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242348734 - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Prickly%20Sesban.html - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090506815000809

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 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 : Sesbania Scop. - riverhemp
Species : Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W. Wight - dunchi fiber

Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W. Wight - dunchi fiber
Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W. Wight - dunchi fiber
Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W. Wight - dunchi fiber
Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W. Wight - dunchi fiber
Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W. Wight - dunchi fiber