Crotalaria ALBIDA Heyne ex Roth.
| Synonym : | - |
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| Bangla Name : | - |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Fabaceae |
| Disease : | Purgative |
| Description : | A much-branched undershrub, 30-60 cm high, branches slender, terete. Leaves small, 2.5-5 cm long, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, more or less silky-pubescent. Flowers in terminal 6-20 flowered racemes, 5-12.5 cm long, corolla 4 mm long, pale yellow. Pods sessile, oblong- cylindric, 1.2-1.6 cm long. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts and Cox’s Bazar. |
| Chemical Constituents : | A new pryrrolizidine alkaloid, croalbidine has been isolated from plants that shown to be diester of croalbinecine and trichodesmic acid (Rastogi and Mehrotra, 1993). |
| Uses : | Roots are purgative. Alcoholic extract of the plant posses antibacterial properties (Singha et al., 1993). |
| Habit : | Under shrub |