Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS070 : Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) O. Ktze. ex Merr.

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -

Synonym : Flemingia prostrata Roxb.; Crotalaria macrophylla Willd.; Flemingia macrophylla var. nana Sasaki.; Flemingia angustifolia Roxb.; Flemingia bhottea Buch.-Ham.; Flemingia capitata Buch.-Ham.; Flemingia congesta Roxb. ex W. T. Aiton.; Flemingia latifolia Benth.; Flemingia nana Roxb.; Flemingia prostrata Roxb.; Flemingia semialata W.T.Aiton.; Moghania cumingiana (Benth.) Kuntze.; Moghania macrophylla (Willd.) Kuntze.; Moghania semialata (W.T.Aiton) Mukerjee.;

Plant Common Name : Large-Leaf Flemingia • Nepali: Bhatabaasee, Bhatamaase

Plant Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae

Description : Erect shrubs; branchlets trigonous, adpressed tomentose. Leaflets subequal, 5-14 x 2-5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, base cuneate to rounded, apex acute to acuminate, tomentose along the nerves on both surfaces or glabrescent above, basally 3-nerved; petiole to 7 cm long, narrowly winged. Racemes axillary, clustered or single, 2.5-5.5 cm long, villous. Flowers 7-10 mm long; pedicels c. 2 mm long; bracts 4-7 mm long, lanceolate. Calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, the lower longest, much exceeding the tube, pubescent. Petals reddish; standard 7-8 mm long, oblong-obovate; wings and keels long-clawed. Pods 0.8-1.2 x 0.4-0.6 cm, oblong, turgid, covered with powdery red coating.

Plant Location in Melghat : Nearby areas of Raipur village

Medicinal Use / Activity : The leaves are febrifuge and are used for treating postpartum fever and to treat paralysis and pain in the joints. A decoction of the leaves is used to bathe sores and swellings. The entire plant is given to relieve stomach-ache. A decoction of the root is drunk as a treatment for spermatorrhoea

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Genistein; flemichin D; lespedezaflavanone A; ouratea-catechin; fleminone; flemiphyllin; fleminginin; flemingichromone; flemingichalcone;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2):

Genistein;

Catechin;

Plant's Current Status : Rare

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Flemingia+macrophylla - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Large_Leaf%20Flemingia.html - https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/24227 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/225779

Reference : ~ Dhole PA and Bhogaonkar PY; "Additions to the Fabaceae of Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR), Maharashtra, India"; Int. J. of Life Sciences (2015); 3(3): 260-262 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 : Flemingia Roxb. ex W.T. Aiton - flemingia
Species : Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) O. Ktze. ex Merr.

Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) O. Ktze. ex Merr.
Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) O. Ktze. ex Merr.
Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) O. Ktze. ex Merr.
Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) O. Ktze. ex Merr.