Tephrosia villosa - Hoary Tephrosia

❏ Binomial Name : Tephrosia villosa (L.) Pers.

❏ Synonym : Cracca villosa,Tephrosia hirta, Tephrosia incana

❏ Family : Leguminosae

❏ Common Name : Hoary Tephrosia

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❏ IUCN status: Least Concern

Tephrosia villosa Botanical Description

Much branched annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; branchlets densely pubescent with white appressed-hairs. Leaves imparipinnate, to 6 cm long; leaflets 9-15, 1-2 x 0.5-1 cm, obovate or oblanceolate, base acute to cuneate, apex obtuse or retuse, glabrous above and sericeous below; stipules 3-6 mm long, subulate. Inflorescence pseudoracemose, terminal or leaf-opposed, to 7 cm long. Flowers 8-10 mm long, subsessile; bracts linear-deltoid. Calyx c. 5 mm long; lobes filiform, ciliate. Petals pink or white; standard 8-10 mm long, orbicular; wings to 1 cm long, oblong-obovate; keels c. 8 mm long, beaked. Pods 2.5-3.5 x 0.4-0.5 cm, oblong-falcate, densely villous, 5-8-seeded. Seeds c. 3 x 2 mm, reniform, dark brown. Fl. &Fr.: December-April.

Tephrosia villosa Medicinal uses

❀ The leaf juice is used to treat dropsy and diabetes

❀ The roots and leaves contain rotenoids

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