Flemingia_grahamiana
Flemingia grahamiana
Species of plant
Flemingia grahamiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. Extracts of the plant is used in the dyeing of silk and cotton in parts of India, Africa and the MIddle East.
| Flemingia grahamiana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Flemingia |
| Species: | F. grahamiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Flemingia grahamiana Wight & Arn. | |
An erect herb or subshrub, Flemingia grahamiana can grow up to 1.8 m tall[1] but commonly shorter,[2] it is much branched, deeply rooted and sometimes tuberous.[1][2] Leaves appear digitately trifoliate with stipules and petioles present; leaflets are elliptic to lanceolate in outline, up to 13 cm long and 7 cm wide.[2] Inflorescence is an axillary raceme, corolla is yellowish white to pink in color, calyx is tubular and up to 1.5 cm long.[1] Fruit is an inflated oblong pod, 2 seeded and covered with a red or orange viscous exude.[1]
Occurs in India, parts of South Asia, in particular, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Yemen and also occurs in East Africa southwards to South Africa. Found on hill slopes,[2] termite mounds and in open and wooded savannah in Africa.[1]
Chalcone and flemingin A have been isolated from the leaves of the species, also islated from the roots were isoflavones and prenylated flavanones.[1]
Flemingia grahamiana is used in various countries for ethnomedical purposes, in parts of India leaves are used as a purgative, while in parts of Malawi and Zimbabwe root extracts are used as a decoction to treat diarrhea and dysentery .[1] Exudates from the pod is used in the dyeing of silk and sometimes cotton.[1]
- Gumula, Ivan (2014). Phytochemical Investigation Of Three Leguminosae Plants For Cancer Chemopreventive Agents (PhD thesis). University of Nairobi.
- Kisan Gavade, Sandip; Van der Maesen, Laurentius Josephus Gerardus; Madhwanand Lekhak, Manoj (2020-11-18). "Taxonomic revision of the genus Flemingia (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) in India". Webbia. 75 (2): 141–218. doi:10.36253/jopt-8767. ISSN 0083-7792.