Code
URRPI
Growth form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Annual
Habitat
Marshland / Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Doodia picta Roxb. |
| synonym | Hedysarum pictum Jacq. |
| synonym | Uraria aphrodisiaca Welw. |
| synonym | Uraria leucantha Span. |
| synonym | Uraria linearis Hassk. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Uraria picta is a 0.3-1m erect plant, with imparipinnate compound leaves, long and linear leaflets, sometimes stained white, pink or lilac flowers in long terminal spike.
General habit
Annual herb unbranched or little branched, 30 cm to 1 m tall or subshrub that can reach 1 to 2 m (China).
Stem
Stem round and solid, gray in color, covered with short, hooked hair.
Leaf
Leaves alternate compound, imparipinnate, rachis 8-15 cm long with 2-4 pairs of opposite leaflets and one terminal, leaflet oblong lanceolate, 10-15 cm long and 1-2 cm wide. Petiole 3 to 6 cm long, lateral petiolules 2-3 mm long, terminal length 10 to 15 mm; Presence of 2 widely triangular stipules 10 mm long at the base of the petiole. Linear stipels are present at each pair of leaflets and at the apex of the terminal petiolule. The upper surface of leaflets is glabrous variegated with yellowish-white along the midrib. The base is rounded, the top is gradually narrowed and then rounded, mucronate. The margin is entire. The loawer face is very finely pubescent, especially along the nervs and at the base of the margin. The nervs are parallel arched, joining the margin.
Inflorescence
Inflorescence spiciform terminal 20 to 35 cm long and 2 to 3 cm wide.
Flower
Dense flowers with blue-purple corolla 8-10 mm long, borne by a pedicel 5-6 mm long, pubescent. Calyx with 5 filiform, pubescent and long hairy teeth, 3-4 mm long. The lower teeth slightly longer than the upper ones. The standard broadly oval, the wings 5-7 mm shortly auriculate at the base, the keel as long as the wings, with curved end. The ovary is hairless, with 3 to 5 ovules
Fruit
The fruit is a short pod consisting of 3-5 articles twisted like accordion and measuring 2 to 3 mm each. The pod is glabrous and lead colored.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
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China : Uraria picta flowers and fructifies from April to October.
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Ecology
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Benin: Uraria picta grows in coastal and fluviolacustrine, Sudano-Guinean on Barrier Sea, Sudano-Guinean transition, Sudanese North and Northeast, Sudano-Sahelian Far North.
China: present in grasslands on slopes of 400 to 1500 m altitude.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
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Uraria picta occurs in Africa and Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Japan (S Ryukyu Islands), Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam, tropical Africa, Australia).
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
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Local harmfulness
Benin: Uraria picta is a frequent and scanty weed in rice fields.
Ivory Coast: rare and scanty in the rice field.
Mauritius: Absent
Reunion: Absent
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
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Medicinal: Drink of leaves of Uraria picta crushed with salt and diluted in water and filtered treats against heartache; Whole plant against the hemorrhoid; Roots or root juices would be aphrodisiacs. The roots are used in Chinese medicine to invigorate the liver and spleen and as a sedative.
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Management
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📚 Information Listing
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References
- Berhaut J., 1976. Flore illustrée du Sénégal, Dicotylédones ; Tome V. pp 591-592
- Akoègninou A., van der Burg W.J., van der Maesen L.J.G. 2006. Flore Analytique du Bénin. Backhuys Publishers, Wageningen. 1034 pp.
Information Listing > References
- Berhaut J., 1976. Flore illustrée du Sénégal, Dicotylédones ; Tome V. pp 591-592
- Akoègninou A., van der Burg W.J., van der Maesen L.J.G. 2006. Flore Analytique du Bénin. Backhuys Publishers, Wageningen. 1034 pp.
Images
Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=uraria%2520picta
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Uraria |
| Species | Uraria picta (Jacq.) DC. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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