Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.) Thouars - showy pigeonpea
Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.) Thouars - showy pigeonpea
Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.) Thouars - showy pigeonpea
MH461 : Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.) Thouars
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Atylosia pauciflora (Wight & Arn.)Druce;
Atylosia scarabaeoides (L.)Benth.;
Cantharospermum pauciflorum Wight & Arn.;
Cantharospermum scarabaeoides (L.)Baill.;
Cantharospermum scarabaeoideum (L.)Baill.;
Dolichos medicagineus Roxb.;
Dolichos minutus Wight & Arn.;
Dolichos scarabaeoides L.;
Rhynchosia biflora DC.;
Rhynchosia scarabaeoides (L.)DC.;
Stizolobium scarabaeoides (L.)Spreng.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Tropical Clover,
Peanut Grass,
Kattumuthira,
Showy Pigeonpea
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| Plant Family | : | FABOIDEAE |
| Description | : | Slender twining herbs; stem brown tomentose. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets to 4 x 2.5 cm, obovate or elliptic, obtuse, basally 3-nerved, reticulations prominent, often with resinous dots below, exstipellate. Flowers racemose or paniculate, pale-yellow, 0.8 cm long in axillary pairs; bracts large, caducous; bracteoles absent. Calyx persistent, tomentose, lobes linear, 0.5 cm long, upper 2-lobes connate. Standard petal with two inflexed auricles at base; keel petals slightly incurved. Stamens 9+1; anthers uniform. Ovary tomentose, sessile, 3 or more ovuled; style filiform, inflexed; stigma small, terminal. Pods brown tomentose, 2-2.5 cm long, obliquely deeply grooved between seeds; seeds strophiolate. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Open areas, forest edges |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | A traditional Chinese medicine, it is used for improving digestion and diuresis. The whole plant is used in the treatment of swelling and pain in the leg during pregnancy; night fevers; renal stones; eye diseases; dropsy; anaemia; hemiplegia; burns and wound;, small-pox; syphilis; gonorrhea; spermatorrhoea; gravel; cholera; dysentery; snake-bite and rinderpest. A decoction of the whole plant, combined with honey, is taken orally as tonic after a woman has given birth. Combined with black pepper (Piper nigrrum), a decoction of the plant is used in the treatment of diarrhoea and dysentery. The juice of the plant is used as a treatment for diarrhoea and dysentery. A paste of the leaves is administered orally to cure swellings in the body. The fresh leaf paste is applied topically to get relief from the pain of rheumatism. A paste of the fresh stem and leaves is applied to sores and to areas affected by venereal diseases. The powdered root is taken orally in order to improve the digestion, treat stomachache and reduce abdominal gas.
An extract of the crushed roots is used as ear drops in the treatment of deafness. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book |
| Reference | : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book 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 | : Cajanus Adans. - cajanus |
| Species | : Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.) Thouars - showy pigeonpea |