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Derris microphylla

Botanic Family
Leguminosae
Author
(Miquel) B. D. Jackson

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Climber-creeper or tree to 12m, glabrescent stems, lenticellate twigs. Leaves 19-41 foliolate, hairy both surfaces, terminal leaflet to 30mm x 9mm. Axillary pseudoracemes to 165mm long with bract to 2.5mm x 0.4mm, Violet or pink flowers to 7mm long with bracts to 1mm x 0.3mm & bracteoles to 0.8mm x 0.3mm,brownish-green calyx villous on back to 2.5mm high with tube to 2mm high & lobes to 1mm x 2.5mm, purplish corolla with claw toi 1.7mm long, standard to 7.7mm x 6mm, wings to 7mm x 2.5mm, keel to 6.5mm x 3mm. Glabrescent pod to 70mm long x 18mm with one wing 4mm wide.

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