Crotalaria SPECTABILIS Roth.
| Synonym : | Crotalaria altipes Raf. Crotalaria macrophylla Wienmann Crotalaria retzii Hitchc. Crotalaria sericea Retz. |
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| Bangla Name : | Jhunjhun, Jhumjhumo, Pipuli jhanjhani. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Fabaceae |
| Disease : | Scabies and impetigo. |
| Description : | An undershrub up to 2 m high, branches stout, striate. Leaves 5-15 cm long, very variable in breadth, oblong-lanceolate or obovate lanceolate, finely silky beneath. Flowers yellow, in elongate terminal 20-50 flowered racemes, 25-30 cm long. Pods linear-oblong, inflated, 2.5-5 cm long. |
| Distribution : | More or less throughout the country in fallow lands. |
| Chemical Constituents : | ?-carotene, triacontane, 22, 23-dihydrostigmasterol and alkaloids – sericine and monocrotaline have been isolated from seeds (Rastogi and Mehrotra, 1990). |
| Uses : | Plants are used in scabies and impetigo, poisonous to livestock, cause hepatic disease. Rats fed on seeds developed pulmonary hypertension (Asolkar et al., 1992). EtOH(50%) extract of the plant is spasmolytic. Alcoholic extract of the plant possesses p |
| Habit : | Under shrub |