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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH073 : Cassia tora L.

Plant Category : Herbs
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 177
Synonym : Senna tora (L.)Roxb.; Cassia boreensis Miq.; Cassia borneensis Miq.; Cassia gallinaria Collad.; Cassia numilis Collad.; Cassia tora var. borneensis (Miq.)Miq.; Emelista tora Britton & Rose.; Cassia tora var. b Wight & Arn.; Cassia tora var. humilis(Collad.) Collad.; Cassia tora var. obtusifolia (L.)Haines.;
Plant Common Name : Tarota, K-Torthan, sickle senna, sickle pod, tora, coffee pod, tovara, chakvad, thakara, Chakavad, Pavand, Takla, Chinese senna, foetid cassia, Java bean, low senna, peanut weed, sickle senna, sicklepod, stinking cassia ,

Plant Family : Caesalpiniaceae / Fabaceae / Leguminosae
Description : An erect, foetid, usually annual, often profusely branched herb or under-shrub, 30-120 cm tall. Stipules linear, hairy, acute, falcate, 8-15 mm long, c. 1 mm broad, subpersistent. Leaf c. 5-10 cm long, leaflets 3 pairs, membranous, mostly obovate, nearly equal sided, c. 0.5-5 cm long and 0.5-2.5 cm wide, both surfaces hairy, glabrescent or glabrous, base oblique, cuneate to rounded, apex delicately acute, petiolules 1.0-2 mm long, glands between 2 lower pairs of petiolules. RaceŽmes short, penducle hairy, c. 3-4 mm long, with a single pair of flower, or axillary solitary. Bracts linear-acute, 2-4 mm long, pedicel 4-10 mm long, in fruit up to 1.5 cm, hairy. Sepals ovate, 5-6 mm long. Petals unequal, ovate, top rounded, 8-10 mm long. Stamens 7, developed, 3 largest, 4 lateral, 3 upper absent or staminodial. Ovary appressed, densely hairy, ribbed, style glabrous, stigma truncate. Pod glabrescent, subtetragonous, often curved, indehiscent, 10-20 cm long, 4-6 mm broad. Seeds 20-30, rhomboidal, glossy, dark, 5 mm across. Fl. Per.: November-December.
Plant Location in Melghat : -
Medicinal Use / Activity : Esabgol, Head achae, anti-cancer, snake bite poisoning, reduces cholesterol, psoriasis, Anti-bacterial,

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Fistucacidin; emodin; Rubro fusarin; Torosachrysone; Isotoralactone; Questin; Obtusin; Obtusifolin; Alaternins; Cassiaside; Chrysophenol is its marker compound. Seeds: cinnamaldehyde; gum; tannins; mannitol; coumarins; aldehydes; eugenol and pinene; sugars; resins; Root: Beta-sitosterol-beta-D-glucoside; palmitic acid; stearic acid; uridine; quercitin; iso-quercitin; Sumatrol;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5):

Beta-sitosterol;

Sumatrol;

Eugenol;

Palmitic acid;

Cinnamaldehyde;

Plant's Current Status : Not Common
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=5&taxon_id=200012035 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/231121
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 :

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

~ Sonika Jain, Jaya Dwivedi, Pankaj Kumar Jain, Swaha Satpathy and Arjun Patra; "Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Cancer: A Brief Review"; Pharmacogn. J. (2016); 8(2): 87-102 PMID :

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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 : Caesalpiniaceae / Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Cassia - sensitive pea
Species : Cassia tora L.

Cassia tora L.
Cassia tora L.
Cassia tora L.
Cassia tora L.
Cassia tora L.
Cassia tora L.