Description ⁴

Annual, 60-100 cm tall, suberect, branches pubescent, hairs long, deflexed. Leaf trifoliolate, petiole 2.5-3.8 cm long; leaflets 3.7-7.0 cm long, 1.2-4.3 cm broad, oblong-lanceolate, acute, apiculate, glabrous to subglabrous on both sides; petiolules 1.5-3.0 mm long; stipels2.5 mm long; stipules 10-13 mm long. Inflorescence a peduncled raceme, peduncle 15-30 cm long. Bract c.6 mm long, bracteoles 7.5 mm long. Pedicel very short. Calyx c. 5 mm long, pubescent, teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla purple, 1.2-1.3 cm long. Fruit 7.5-10 cm long, 3 mm broad, beaked, pubescent when young, later becoming subglabrous, 20-seeded.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Bob Peterson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/pondapple/10357910764/
2. (c) Harry Rose, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/macleaygrassman/10356734894/
3. (c) Ahmad Fuad Morad, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/adaduitokla/5979008085/
4. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/5003782

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