''Tephrosia spinosa'' is a flowering plant
species
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in the
genus
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''
Tephrosia'' native from
India
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,
Sri Lanka
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,
Malaysia
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and
Indonesia
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.
Eupalitin 3-O-β-D-galactopyranoside, a
glycoside
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of the
flavonol eupalitin, can be isolated from ''T. spinosa''.
Tephrospinosin (
3′,5′-diisopentenyl-2′,4′-dihydroxychalcone), a prenylated chalcone, can be isolated from the root.
[A prenylated chalcone from the roots of Tephrosia spinosa. V.M. Sharma and P.S. Rao, Phytochemistry, August 1992, Volume 31, Issue 8, Pages 2915–2916, ]
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spinosa
Plants described in 1807
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