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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH039 : Alysicarpus tetragonolobus Edgew.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 106  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Alysicarpus Neck. ex Desv. - moneywort
Species : Alysicarpus tetragonolobus Edgew.
Plant Location in Melghat : In fields  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Leguminosae  

 
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Description : Procumbent, stems many, 15-30 cm long, marked with a line of hairs. Stipules c. 4-5 mm long, lanceolate, scarious. Leaves unifoliolate; petioles 2-3 mm long; leaflets 1.9-3.2 cm long, 3-10 mm broad, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, base rounded or slightly cordate, glabrous above, hairy beneath; petiolules very short, stipels minute, caducous. Inflorescence lax raceme, 5.0-7.5 cm long; flowers in pairs. Bracts 4-5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, caducous. Pedicel less than 1.5 mm long. Calyx 4-5 mm long, deeply divided, teeth lanceolate, acute, with long white hairs. Pods 9-13 mm long, moniliform, quadrangular, exserted, joints 2-6, transversely ribbed, glabrous. Fl.Per.: August.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :