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Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc.
Family	Leguminosae
Identified with (Lat)	Dolichos biflorus L., Dolichos uniflorus Lam.
Identified with (Skt)	kulattha
Identified with (Hin)	kultthī
Identified with (Tam)	koḷḷu
Identified with (Mal)	mutira
Identified with (Eng)	Horse gram
Botanical info	A suberect or trailing annual plant, leaves trifoliate, leaflets lanceolate or oblong, flowers yellow, fruits sword-shaped, compressed pods about 5 cm long, seeds 5 - 6 compressed reniform, reddish brown, cultivated all over India
Search occurrence	kulattha, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
See plant's image	Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc. in Google image search
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 295) kulattha, m. (fr. kula? cf. aśvattha, kapittha), a kind of pulse (Dolichos uniflorus), Pāṇ. 4-4, 4, MBh. &c.; (ās), m. pl.N. of a people, MBh. vi, 373, VP.; (ā), f. a kind of Dolichos (Glycine labialis), L.; a blue stone used in medicine and applied as a collyrium to the eyes and as an astringent to sores, &c., L.; a species of metre.

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