Desmodium laxiflorum

Diagnostic 1

"Erect herbs, to 35 cm high; stems angled, adpressed-hairy. Terminal leaflet to 13 x 10 cm, ovate, acute at apex, rounded at base, densely hairy below, glabrate above; petiole 4 cm long; stipules 8 mm long, lanceolate; stipels filiform. Racemes to 35 cm long, axillary or terminal; rachis hairy. Flowers solitary or paired, pink; calyx 2 mm long, hairy; standard 6 x 3 mm, emarginate. Pods 6-9 jointed; joints 4 x 1.25 mm, oblong, longitudinally striate."

Sources and Credits

  1. (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26333434

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