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Desmodium adscendens

Botanic Family
Leguminosae
Author
(Swartz) de Candolle

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Climbing, procumbent or erect herb or subshrub with pilose stems. Trifoliate leaves with leaflets glabrous above & pilose beneath or pilose both surfaces, terminal leaflet to 60mm x 23mm, lateral leaflets to 40mm x 19mm. Racemose paniculate inflorescence with bracts to 5mm long, pale violet, reddish, red & blue-green or rarely white flowers, puberulent calyx with teeth to 3.5mm long, standard petal 4.5mm x 3mm, wings 3.5mm x 1.5mm, keel 3.5mm x 1.5mm. Pubescent fruit

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