Cassia mimosoides DC.
Cassia mimosoides DC.
Cassia mimosoides DC.
Cassia mimosoides DC.
MH071 : Cassia mimosoides DC.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 173 |
| Synonym | : | Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene, Cassia angustissima Lam.; Cassia nictitans "sensu Stickman, non L."; Cassia procumbens "sensu Stickman, non L."; Cassia sensitiva Roxb. |
| Plant Common Name | : | feather-leaved cassia, fish-bone cassia, Japanese tea, mountain flat-bean, tea senna, patwa ghas, lajri, chinchini, pivala lajalu |
| Plant Family | : | Caesalpiniaceae / Fabaceae / Leguminosae |
| Description | : | Glabrous shrubs or small trees, up to 5 m tall; branches green or farinose-green, with scattered, prickles. Leaves compound; rachis ca. 15-30 cm long; stipules subulate, caducous; petiolules short; pinnae 6-9 pairs; leaflets 8-12 pairs, sessile, opposite; lamina ca. 1.5-2 x 0.8-1 cm, obovate-oblong, obliquely rounded at base, emarginate or mucronate at apex, entire, glaborus. Inflorescences in broad racemes, terminal and axillary; pedicels articulate near top; Flowers ca. 4 cm across, yellowish orange; calyx glabrous, lowest sepal cucullate; petals 4, subequal, round, crisped, distinctly clawed. Pods ca. 5-8 x 1-2 cm, oblong, straight, beaked, flattened. Seeds 8-10, blackish, retuangular. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | On the margins of roadside ponds etc. |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | AntiDiarrheal, stomachic, used for colic, Milk decoction used in dysentery, Entire plant used as remedy for facial eruptions, Roots given for stomach spasms. Anti-Ulcer / Leaves, Anti-cancer(Wozniak et al., 2015) |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Emodin; luteolin; 1,3-benzenediol; oleanolic acid; (R)-artabotriol; alpha-L-rhamnose; Beta-sitosterol; daucosterol; physcion; physcion-9-antrhone; emodine-9-anthrone; physcion 10,10-bianthrone; chrysophanol; physcion; emodin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3): Beta-sitosterol; Luteolin; Oleanolic Acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/264745 |
| 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 | : Caesalpiniaceae / Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family |
| Genus | : Cassia - sensitive pea |
| Species | : Cassia mimosoides DC. |