Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
Distribution notes: Exotic
Desmodium scorpiurus (Sw.)Desv.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Desmodium akoense Hayata |
synonym | Desmodium arenarium Kunth |
synonym | Desmodium multicaule DC. |
synonym | Desmodium parviflorum M.Martens & Galeotti |
synonym | Desmodium virgatum Desv. |
synonym | Hedysarum scorpiurus Sw. |
synonym | Meibomia multicaulis (DC.)Kuntze |
synonym | Meibomia scorpiurus (Sw.)Kuntze |
synonym | Nissoloides cylindrica M.E.Jones |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Slender, trailing, pubescent herbs up to 1.5 m long; stem sub-terete, clothed with minute hooked hairs; branches few. Leaves alternate, pinnately trifoliate; rachis 1.7-6.5 cm x 1-2 mm, minutely hooked hairy; leaflets subsessile, elliptic to ovate, obtuse at apex, entire, the terminal leaflet often larger, to 1.6-5.5 x 1-3 cm; stipules persistent, connate, amplexicaul, striate, auriculate at the base, acuminate at apex, pubescent and ciliate; stipels to 2 mm long, subulate, pubescent. Inflorescent racemose, 5-15 cm long, minutely pubescent, leaf-opposed, 12-22- flowered. Flowers to 5.5 x 4 mm, solitary or in clusters of 2-3 at nodes; pedicels 4-5 mm long, filiform, patent hairy. Calyx hairy, to 3 mm long, campanulate with a short tube below; lobes 5, to 2.6 mm long, the two upper connate for most part except at the 2-toothed apex, others linear-lanceolate, the lower slightly larger. Petals pink or white turning to pale yellow; standard broadly obovate, 4 mm, slightly emarginated at apex, cuneate at the base; wings sub-elliptic, to 3.5 x 2 mm, rounded at apex, slightly auriculate and shortly clawed at the base; keels longer than the wings, to 4 x 1 mm, clawed, truncate or retuse at the apex, base with a thin lamellate appendage. Stamens diadelphous; staminal column to 3.5 mm long, closely set with minute, hooked hairs. Style to 1 mm long, bent, glabrous; stigma capitate, glabrous. Pod linear, slightly turgid, intended on both the sutures, to 3.3 x 3.3 cm, densely hooked hairy, 4-7 jointed; seeds oblong, subturgid, 3 x 1.3 mm, brown, smooth.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Habit: Herb
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Native of Tropical America, naturalised
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Wastelands, also along the roadsides
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
Native of America; introduced and naturalised in the pacific regions of Asia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Alappuzha, Kozhikkode, Ernakulam, Thrissur
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Maharashtra: Kolhapur
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Hedysarum scorpiurus Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 107. 1788.
- Desmodium scorpiurus (Sw.) Desv., J. Bot. ser. 2, 1: 122. 1813; Druvan et al., Rheedea 5: 177. 1995; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 220. 2009.
- Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002
Information Listing > References
- Hedysarum scorpiurus Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 107. 1788.
- Desmodium scorpiurus (Sw.) Desv., J. Bot. ser. 2, 1: 122. 1813; Druvan et al., Rheedea 5: 177. 1995; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 220. 2009.
- Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Fabales |
Family | Fabaceae |
Genus | Desmodium |
Species | Desmodium scorpiurus (Sw.) Desv. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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