MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH050 : Desmodium rotundifolium DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 128 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Leguminosae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Ritchie's desmodium, round-leaved trailing tick-trefoil | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Desmodium michauxii (Vail) Daniels. Meibomia michauxii Vail. Meibomia rotundifolia (DC.) Kuntze. |
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| Description : | This perennial, herbaceous species has prostrate stems reaching up to 1.5m long, ranging from glabrous to villous. It has alternate leaf arrangement. The petioles are ciliate and range from 3 to 5cm in length. It has pinnate, trifoliate leaves, with leaflets that are round or ovate. The terminal leaflet is 3-7cm; often wider than it is long and usually larger than the lateral leaflets. Leaflets are villous on both surfaces, and with entire margins. The stipules are up to 1 cm long and 7mm broad, ovate with acuminate tips. Stipels are present on all three leaflets, linear and as much as 3mm in length. The inflorescence is a raceme up to 30cm long, with axilliary and terminal perigynous flowers. Ovate bracts are present on the inflorescence axis. The sepals are zygomorphic, pubescent externally, with a single lobe on the upper lip and three on the lower lip (9). The violet (pink to purple) papilionaceous flower petals range from 8-11mm long and bear two white spots edged with dark purple on the base of the standard. The keel and wings are glabrous. The 10 stamens are united into a group of 9 and 1 free (diadelphous). The style is curved, ovary superior, composed of a single carpel. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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