Biology:Grona triflora
| Grona triflora | |
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| Inflorescence in Kerala | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Grona |
| Species: | G. triflora
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| Binomial name | |
| Grona triflora (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi
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Grona triflora, known as creeping tick trefoil or three-flower beggarweed, is a plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to tropical regions around the globe and introduced to subtropical regions including the southern United States.[1][2][3]
Foliage
Fruit and seeds
At Peradeniya Royal Botanical Garden
Phytochemicals
Grona triflora (Desmodium triflorum) contains alkaloids including N,N-dimethyltryptophan methyl ester, dimethyltryptamine-N-oxide, hypaphorine (structurally related to plakohypaphorine), phenylethylamine, hordenine, tyramine, and trigonelline.[4][5]
Medicinal applications and qualities
Creeping tick trefoil has been utilized in folk medicine. Conditions it has been used for include wounds, diarrhea, rheumatism, dysentery, and skin diseases.[6]
Known substances found in trefoils include alkaloids and flavonoids. The entire plant is used in human nutritional treatment.[7]
Agricultural applications
Creeping tick trefoil is used in agriculture similarly to the closely related Desmodium; see Desmodium.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Grona triflora | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = 2008-04-28 }}
- ↑ "Grona triflora". Australian Government: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. 2020. https://www.tropicalforages.info/text/entities/grona_triflora.htm.
- ↑ "Grona triflora (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77187443-1. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- ↑ Ghosal, S.; Srivastava, R. S.; Bhattacharya, S. K.; Debnath, P. K. (June 1973). "Desmodiumalkaloids". Planta Medica 23 (4): 321–329. doi:10.1055/s-0028-1099451. PMID 4269926.
- ↑ Ghosal, S.; Srivastava, R. S.; Banerjee, P. K.; Dutta, S. K. (December 1971). "Alkaloids of Desmodium triflorum". Phytochemistry 10 (12): 3312–3313. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)97411-9.
- ↑ Herbpathy https://herbpathy.com/Uses-and-Benefits-of-Creeping-Tick-Trefoil-Cid1166 retrieved 17 Oct 2022
- ↑ Herbpathy https://herbpathy.com/Uses-and-Benefits-of-Creeping-Tick-Trefoil-Cid1166 retrieved 17 Oct 2022
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