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Tephrosia purpurea (L.)Pers.

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Tephrosia purpurea (L.)Pers.
Tephrosia purpurea (L.)Pers.
Tephrosia purpurea (L.)Pers.
Tephrosia purpurea (L.)Pers.
Tephrosia purpurea (L.)Pers.
Tephrosia purpurea (L.)Pers.
Tephrosia purpurea (L.)Pers.
Tephrosia purpurea (L.)Pers.
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🗒 Synonyms
synonymCracca purpurea L.
synonymGlycyrrhiza mairei H.Lév.
synonymTephrosia colonila (Ham.)Benth.
synonymTephrosia diffusa (Roxb.)Wight & Arn.
synonymTephrosia ionophlebia Hayata
synonymTephrosia lanceifolia Link
synonymTephrosia piscatoria (Aiton)Pers.
synonymTephrosia purpurea var. diffusa (Roxb.)Aitch.
🗒 Common Names
English
  • Common Tephrosia
  • Purple tephrosia
  • Wild Indigo
Hin
  • Sarphanka
Hindi
  • Dhamasia
  • Sarphanka
Irula
  • Kolingi
Kannada
  • Empali
Malayalam
  • Kattamari
  • Kodikozhingil
  • Kolinnil
  • Kozhenjil
  • Kozhingil
  • Kozhuva
Other
  • Common Tephrosia
  • Dhamasa
  • Fish Poison
  • Kollukaai vaelai
  • Kozhinji
  • Kuggai
  • {sarphonk सरफोंक
  • Sharpunkha शरपुंखा} (Hindi)
  • Tephrosia
  • Unhali (Marathi)
  • Wild Indigo
Tamil
  • Avuri
  • Kattukolingi
  • Kattukozhinji
📚 Overview
Overview
Summary
Herb
Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
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    Brief
    Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Herb
    Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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      Diagnostic Keys
      Description
      Habit: A much-branched subshrub, upto 70cm.
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        Perennial erect or decumbent herbs or subshrubs, up to 50 cm tall. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 7-15, 1-2.8 x 0.3-1 cm, oblanceolate or obovate, base cuneate, apex obtuse to emarginate or truncate, mucronate; stipules 3-6 mm long, lanceolate. Flowers c. 7 mm long, in few-flowered, leaf-opposed, pseudoracemes; pedicels 3-4 mm long; bracts c. 2 mm long. Calyx 3-4 mm long., pubescent; lobes subulate. Corolla pink to purplish; standard c. 4 mm broad, orbicular. Staminal tube to 4 mm long. Pods 2.5-4 x 0.3-0.4 cm, linear-oblong, 5-7-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, dark brown.
        Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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          Habit: Undershrub
          G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
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            📚 Natural History
            Cyclicity
            Flowering and fruiting: October-December
            Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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              Morphology

              Growth Form

              Shrub
              Shrub
              Flower

              In leaf-opposed pseudoracemes; bluish-pink to purple. Flowering throughout the year.

              Fruit

              A slightly falcate pod, downy-pubescent; seeds 7, ovoid. Fruiting throughout the year.

              Field tips

              Stem slender tererte; leaflet appressed hairy beneath. Branchlets pubescent-villous. Terminal leaflet less than 1.5 cm long.

              Leaf Arrangement

              Alternate-distichous

              Leaf Type

              Imparipinnate

              Leaf Shape

              Obovate-oblanceolate

              Leaf Apex

              Truncate

              Leaf Base

              Cuneate

              Leaf Margin

              Entire

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                Miscellaneous Details
                Notes: Moist deciduous forests also in the plains
                G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
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                  📚 Habitat and Distribution
                  General Habitat
                  Gregarious in wastelands, fallow fields even in poor soils. Plains from the coast to 750(1000)m. Himalaya, India, Burma and Malaysia.
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                    Dry grasses,roadsides
                    Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
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                      Moist deciduous forests and grasslands, also in the plains
                      Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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                        Description
                        Maharashtra: Kolhapur Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Dharwar, Hassan, Mysore, S. Kanara Kerala: All districts Tamil Nadu: All districts
                        G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
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                          Found on agricultural fields, river banks and roadsides from plains to 500m. Common. Africa, Asia and C.America.
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                            Global Distribution

                            India: Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu

                            Indian Distribution

                            Throughout Assam

                            Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
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                              Global Distribution

                              Indo-Malesia

                              Indian distribution

                              State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts

                              Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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                                📚 Occurrence
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                                📚 Uses and Management
                                Uses

                                System of Medicines Used In

                                Ayurveda
                                Ayurveda
                                Folk medicine
                                Folk medicine
                                Siddha
                                Siddha
                                Unani
                                Unani
                                Traditional chinese medicine
                                Traditional chinese medicine
                                A blue dye extracted from the flowers.
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                                  System Of Medicines Used In

                                  Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Unani, Siddha, Traditional chinese medicine

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                                    Medicinal
                                    Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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                                      Folklore
                                      Indigenous Information: A good green manure for agricultural fields.
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                                        📚 Information Listing
                                        References
                                        1. Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B.D, 1984
                                        1. Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers., Syn. 2: 329. 1807; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 112. 1876,p.p.; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 320(226). 1918; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 87. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 157. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 135. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 156. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 139. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 205. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 174. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 258. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 159. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 92. 1995; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 155. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 116. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 103. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 191. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 242. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 310. 2009.
                                        2. Cracca purpurea L., Sp. Pl. 752. 1753.
                                        3. Tephrosia hamiltonii Drumm. ex Dunn in Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 320(226). 1918.
                                        1. D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2057
                                        Information Listing > References
                                        1. Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B.D, 1984
                                        2. Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers., Syn. 2: 329. 1807; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 112. 1876,p.p.; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 320(226). 1918; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 87. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 157. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 135. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 156. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 139. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 205. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 174. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 258. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 159. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 92. 1995; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 155. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 116. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 103. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 191. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 242. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 310. 2009.
                                        3. Cracca purpurea L., Sp. Pl. 752. 1753.
                                        4. Tephrosia hamiltonii Drumm. ex Dunn in Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 320(226). 1918.
                                        5. D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2057

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                                        📚 Meta data
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                                        🐾 Taxonomy
                                        RootRoot
                                        KingdomPlantae
                                        PhylumTracheophyta
                                        ClassEquisetopsida C. Agardh
                                        OrderFabales
                                        FamilyFabaceae
                                        GenusTephrosia
                                        SpeciesTephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers.
                                        📊 Temporal Distribution
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