Desmodium gangeticum, Pseudarthia viscida  - Medicinal Plant

SALA PARNI

Desmodium gangeticum – North India

Pseudarthia viscida – South India

Botanical Name— Desmodium gangeticum

Family- FABACEAE

Pseudarthia viscida

Botanical Name— Pseudarthia viscida

Family- FABACEAE

Names in different languages

Hindi-Sarivan; Gujarati & Marathi -Salavana; Telugu- Kolăkuponna;

Scientific classification: Clovers belong to the subfamily Papilionoideae of the family Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae).

Introduction

Its external application is considered as antiseptic/anti-microbial. In South India Desmodium gangeticum used as ‘prsni parni’