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Desmodium affine

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Schlechtendahl

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Goiás
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Roraima
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Moist thicket
• open areas
• forest
• coastal thickets

Flowering Times

• Aug (Nicaragua)
• Sep (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Nov (Nicaragua)

Herbaceous vine or creeper or erect herb with pilose stems. Trifoliate pilose leaves, terminal leaflets to 35mm x 25mm, lateral leaflets to 27mm x 18mm, pubescent beneath. Axillary or terminal racemes with bracts 3mm long & bractlets to 1.5mm long, of purple, pale pnk, yellow or white 6mm flowers, puberulent calyx with lobes to 3.6mm long, standard 6mm x 5mm, wings 6.5mm long, keel 6mm long. Green fruit

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• SAFIO
• Standley