Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers. - fishpoison
Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers. - fishpoison
Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers. - fishpoison
Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers. - fishpoison
Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers. - fishpoison
MS045 : Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers.
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 157 |
| Synonym | : | Cracca purpurea L.;
Glycyrrhiza mairei H.Lév.;
Tephrosia colonila (Ham.)Benth.;
Tephrosia diffusa (Roxb.)Wight & Arn.;
Tephrosia ionophlebia Hayata.;
Tephrosia lanceifolia Link.;
Tephrosia piscatoria (Aiton)Pers.;
Tephrosia purpurea var. diffusa (Roxb.)Aitch.;
Tephrosia purpurea var. pumila (Lam.) Baker.;
Tephrosia purpurea var. pumila (Lam.) Baker; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Fish Poison, Wild Indigo, Purple Tephrosia, avasa; Sarphonk, Sharpunkha, sharpankha, unhali |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae |
| Description | : | Perennial erect or decumbent herbs or subshrubs, up to 50 cm tall. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 7-15, 1-2.8 x 0.3-1 cm, oblanceolate or obovate, base cuneate, apex obtuse to emarginate or truncate, mucronate; stipules 3-6 mm long, lanceolate. Flowers c. 7 mm long, in few-flowered, leaf-opposed, pseudoracemes; pedicels 3-4 mm long; bracts c. 2 mm long. Calyx 3-4 mm long., pubescent; lobes subulate. Corolla pink to purplish; standard c. 4 mm broad, orbicular. Staminal tube to 4 mm long. Pods 2.5-4 x 0.3-0.4 cm, linear-oblong, 5-7-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, dark brown. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Around villages sites on open lands |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Anthelmintic, alexipharma, diuretic, deobstruent, laxative, bronchitis, bilious, febrile attacks, boils, pimpls and bleeding piles. Decoction of leaves mixed with 1-2 cloves is used against dysentery. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: leaves: Rutin; Quercetin; Rotenone; Glabratephrin; (flavonoid): Tephrosin; Pongaglabol; Semiglabrin;
Tephropurpin; Osyrtine; Lanceolatine (A); Purpuranine A; Purpuranine B; Methyl pongamol lanceolatin B; Macckain; Stigmosterol; Beta-sitosterol; Compestrol; Stigmasta-4-ene-3-one; Stigmasta -4;
22-diene-3-one; apollinine; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5): Beta-sitosterol; Quercetin; Rutin; Tephrosin; Rotenone; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve.
- Mujeeb, M.; Aqil, M.; Najmi, A. K.; et al. "Antioxidant and antihyperlipidemic activity of Tephrosia purpurea callus culture" PLANTA MEDICA Volume: 78 Issue: 11 Pages: 1174 to 1174 Published: AUG 2012
- Gulecha, Vishal; Sivakuma, Thangavel, "Anticancer activity of Tephrosia purpurea and Ficus religiosa using MCF 7 cell lines", ASIAN PACIFIC JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE Volume: 4 Issue: 7 Pages: 526to529
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Common%20Tephrosia.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/32797
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Tephrosia%20purpurea
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140110/ |
| Reference | : | ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal; "Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2015); 9(32): 851-862 PMID : ~ Sheela Kumar, V.K. Agnihotri, Sunita Thakur, Anita Verma1, R.C. Saxena and Kapil K. Soni; "Some important medicinal plants used in the treatment of Asthma - A review "; IJPSR (2012); 3(10): 500-502 PMID : ~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 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 | : Tephrosia Pers. - hoarypea |
| Species | : Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers. - fishpoison |