Flemingia grahamiana

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Flemingia grahamiana

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.

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.

Description

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]

Distribution and habitat

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]

Chemistry

Chalcone and flemingin A have been isolated from the leaves of the species, also isolated from the roots were isoflavones and prenylated flavanones.^[1]

Uses

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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Gumula, Ivan (2014). Phytochemical Investigation Of Three Leguminosae Plants For Cancer Chemopreventive Agents (PhD thesis). University of Nairobi.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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.

Taxon identifiers
Flemingia grahamiana	Wikidata: Q15240424 Wikispecies: Flemingia grahamiana APDB: 69541 CoL: 6J8V2 EoL: 644628 EPPO: FLEGR FNA: 242322679 FoC: 242322679 GBIF: 5359839 GRIN: 311456 iNaturalist: 585990 IPNI: 495259-1 IRMNG: 11076041 NCBI: 2595081 Open Tree of Life: 7055770 Plant List: ild-2749 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:495259-1 SANBI: 464-1 Tropicos: 13050854 WFO: wfo-0000181342

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