MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH411 : Desmodium dichotomum (Willd.) DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Gularghat | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Chikta, Asud | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Desmodium diffusum (Willd.)DC. Desmodium quinquangulatum (Roxb.)Wight. Hedysarum articulatum Roxb. Hedysarum dichotomum Willd. Hedysarum diffusum Willd. Hedysarum quinquangulatum Roxb. |
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| Description : | Subshrubs or diffuse herbs, 20-80 cm tall. Stems adpressed long straight hairy and spreading hooked hairy. Leaves 3-foliolate, sometimes 1-foliolate near base of stem; petiole 1.5-3.5 cm, hairy; leaflet blade elliptic or ovate to broadly elliptic or broadly ovate, 1.5-7 × 1-6 cm, abaxially densely adpressed hairy, adaxially with sparse adpressed hairs, intermixed with sparse hooked hairs. Racemes terminal or axillary or usually panicles, 5-45 cm, hooked hairy, laxly flowered, 2- or 3-flowered at each node. Pedicel 2-5 mm. Calyx 4-lobed, ca. as long as tube; upper lobes 2-toothed. Corolla purple to violet, ca. 3 mm; standard obovate or broadly obovate, base shortly clawed; wings and keel wholly shortly clawed at base. Ovary densely pubescent, 5- or 6-ovuled. Legume narrowly oblong, 1-1.8 cm × 2.5-3 mm, densely hooked hairy, 5- or 6-jointed, both sutures shallowly constricted between articles. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 22. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID : |
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