Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Zornia angustifolia var. oblongifolia Wight & Arn. |
🗒 Common Names
| No Data |
📚 Overview
Description
Prostrate perennial branched herbs to 30 cm long. Leaves 2-foliolate; leaflets 5-10 x 3-6 mm, obliquely oblong-ovate, apex acute or obtuse, mucronate, punctate, 1-nerved; petioles longer than the leaflets; stipules peltate, upto 6 x 3 mm, 5-7-nerved, punctate. Inflorescence axillary or terminal zig-zag spike; bracts to 7 x 3 mm, broadly elliptic-lanceolate, acute, sparsely ciliate at the margins, punctate. Calyx c. 3 mm long. Petals yellow; standard c. 7 mm long. Lomentum with 2-6 articles, exserted; articles c. 3 x 2.5 mm, reticulate, punctate, puberulent, with numerous retrorsely scabrous prickles. Seeds c. 2 mm long, subreniform, yellowish brown.
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Wastelands in the plains
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
India
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Alappuzha, Kasaragode, Kollam, Pathanamthitta
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Zornia quilonensis Ravi, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 66:489.1969; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 159. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 138. 1985; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 280. 1992; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 194. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 246. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- Zornia quilonensis Ravi, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 66:489.1969; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 159. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 138. 1985; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 280. 1992; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 194. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 246. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Zornia |
| Species | Zornia quilonensis Ravi |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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