Common in open areas The plant is used as a fibre crop, green manure and cover crop. Leaves and seeds are used for anorexia, constipation, blood disorders, amenorrhoea, skin diseases and obesity. In siddha medicine, roots, leaves NARAHDISAS and seeds are used to treat fever, pois
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The plant is used as a fibre crop, green manure and cover crop. Leaves and seeds are used for anorexia, constipation, blood disorders, amenorrhoea, skin diseases and obesity. In siddha medicine, roots, leaves NARAHDISAS and seeds are used to treat fever, poisoning and dysentery. .N/OAF
Annual erect herbs; stems × striate, silky-pubescent. Leaves 3-8 0.5- 1.5 cm, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, base acute, apex obtuse to subacute, clothed with appressed hairs; petiole to 3 mm long. Inflorescence teminal, racemose, many- flowered, 15-30 cm long. Flowers yellow, 1.5-2 cm long; pedicels ca. 5 mm long. Calyx ca. 1.8 cm long, fulvous hairy, teeth linear-lanceolate. Standard petal 1.5-2 cm long; ca. 2 cm long and broad, ovate, veined red, silky without; wings shorter than keel × and standard. Pods sessile, 2.5-3 1-1.3 cm, oblong-cylindrical, fulvous silky hairy; seeds 8-15, ca. 4 mm long, obliquely- cordiform.