Thermopsis inflata
Camb.
Kanjubopa
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Description
A shrub. The root is woody. It has a creeping rhizome or underground stem. The erectstem is 75 cm high. The leaves have leaflets. The leaflets are 1-2.7 cm long by 0.5-1.6 cm wide. They are broadly oval. The flowering shoot has 2-3 flowers at each node. The fruit are about 5 cm long. They are inflated. There are 6-10 seeds.
Edible Uses
The seeds are eaten.
Distribution
It is a temperate plant. It grows up to 4,000 m altitude in the Himalayas. In western China it grows in gravelly meadows and alpine rocky cliffs between 4,500-5,000 m above sea level.
Where It Grows
Asia, Bhutan, China, Himalayas, India, Nepal, NW India, Pakistan, Tibet,
References (1)
- Battacharyya, A., 1991, Ethnobotanical Observations in the Ladakh Region of Northern Jammu and Kashmir State, India. Economic Botany, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 305-308
