| Fragrant Scurfy Pea |
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Botanical name: Cullen plicatum Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Psoralea odorata, Psoralea plicata, Munbya plicata
Synonyms: Psoralea odorata, Psoralea plicata, Munbya plicata
Fragrant Scurfy Pea is an undershrub, 30-60 cm tall,
with stem velvet-hairy and scantily glandular dotted. Leaves are
trifoliolate, leaf-stalk 5-13 mm long, end leaflet 1.2-2.5 cm long,
oblong, the lateral ones 5-12 mm long, obovate, both irregularly wavy,
velvet-hairy and gland-dotted on both sides. Flowers are borne in
racemes, about 5-10 cm long, flowers solitary or in fascicles of 2-3,
flower-stalk 1-2 mm long. Flowers about 5 mm long, ellipsoid, densely
velvet-hairy, enclosed in the enlarging sepal-cup. Bracts 1-2 mm long.
Sepal-cup 3.5 mm long, velvet-hairy, teeth shorter than the tube.
Fragrant Scurfy Pea is found in Sahara, S Africa to NW India.
Flowering: April-May.
Medicinal uses:
Roots of are used as
toothpicks, skin diseases, blood purifier, psoriasis, diarrhea,
hyperacidity, spasm, diseases of the uterus and vaginal gonorrhea.
Medicinal uses:
Roots of are used as
toothpicks, skin diseases, blood purifier, psoriasis, diarrhea,
hyperacidity, spasm, diseases of the uterus and vaginal gonorrhea.
| Identification credit: Sarman Ratiya | Photographed in Anjar, Kutch, Gujarat. |
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