Family: Fabaceae
Vernacular name: Blue-Flowered Rattlepod
Habit: Shrub
Habitat: Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, also in the plains
Distribution: Southern Western Ghats
Flowering and Fruiting: September-December
Key identification features: Erect shrubs; Flowers numerous; petals white or bluish white; glabrous. Pods minutely hispid, clawed.
Uses:
It is used as medicinal folkloric remedies for the
treatment of several ailments.The plant extracts exhibit antioxidant,
antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory activities.
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