Indigofera trita L. f. - Asian indigo
Indigofera trita L. f. - Asian indigo
MS040 : Indigofera trita L. f.
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 141 |
| Synonym | : | Galega frutescens Mill.; Indigofera carinata De Wild.; Indigofera heterophylla C.Presl; Indigofera laevis Rydb.; Indigofera macilenta Standl.; Indigofera oxycarpa Desv.; Indigofera quartiniana A.Rich.; Indigofera rosei Rydb.; Indigofera subulata Griseb.; Indigofera tephrosioides Micheli; Tephrosia frutescens (Mill.) DC.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Asian Indigo, Three-leaved indigo • Tamil: punal-murunkai • Telugu: jidi vempali • Kannada: goramti nili |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae |
| Description | : | Erect, woody herbs or shrubs, 30-200 cm high; branches erect to horizontal, pinkish to light green, coarsely strigose. Leaves pinnately trifoliate; very rarely 5, opposite, 1-4 x 0.5-02.5 cm, elliptic sometimes obovate, obtuse to cuneate or rounded at base, obtuse to rounded or sometimes emarginated and mucronate at apex, adpressed pubescent on both surfaces, sometimes glabrous above especially when the leaflets are small; rachis 5-12 mm long, petioles 1-2.5 cm long, canaliculate above; stipules 1-2 x 0.3-0.5 mm, narrowly triangular, hairy outside. Racemes 1.5-4.5 mm long, sessile, axillary; rachis striate, adpressed strigose, 15-30-flowered. Flowers pink to brick red, 4-5 mm long; bracts 1-1.5 mm long, narrowly triangular, caduceus; pedicels up to 1.2 mm long. Calyx adpressed white pubescent, cup 0.5-1 mm long, teeth 1-1.5 x 0.5 mm, narrowly triangular. Standard petals 3.5-4.5 x 3-4 mm, orbicular, sometimes broadly obovate, rounded and mucronate at apex, adpressed strigose on the back; wing petals 3-4 x 1 mm, glabrous, ciliate along margins; keel petals 3-4x1-1.5 mm, adpressed strigose outside towards the tip, ciliate along margins, lateral spur ca 0.6 mm long. Staminal sheath 3-4 mm long; anthers ca 0.5 mm long. Ovary ca 3 mm long, linear, glabrous, up to 10-ovuled; style 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Pods 15-30 x 1.5-2.5 mm, deflexed to spreading, straight, subtetragonous sharply beaked, strigose, ash-grey to pinkish; seeds 6-10, ca 2 x 1.5 mm, subtetragonous, yellow, dark-brown, smooth. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | On westlands around villages, bunds of fields |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The plant is used as Anti-tumor (Nadkarni et.al.2000), Hepatoprotective, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities(Senthilkumar et al., 2008). Treat diseases such as rheumatism, arthritis, inflammation, tumor and liver diseases. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: phthalic acid; hexadecane; Squalene; Ricinoleic acid; Oleic acid; N-Hexadecanoic acid; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Squalene; Squalene; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Not common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/263376
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Asian%20Indigo.html
- https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/120416
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777595/
- https://scialert.net/fulltext/?doi=ijar.2011.358.367 |
| 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 | : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family |
| Genus | : Indigofera L. - indigo |
| Species | : Indigofera trita L. f. - Asian indigo |