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Desmodium axillare

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Swartz) de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Bahia
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro
• Roraima
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Venezuela
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• shrubland
• coastal
• streamside
• riverside
• grassland
• woodland
• forest
• disturbed areas
• cloud forest.

Flowering Times

• Mar-Sep (Nicaragua)
• Jan-Aug (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Oct (Nicaragua)
• Jan-Aug (Puerto Rico

Pubescent or scantily hairy herbaceous climber or prostrate creeper with woody base climbing by aerial roots, striate puberulent stems. Trifoliolate leaves, glabrous above puberulent on veins, strigose or pubescent beneath, terminal leaflet to 90mm x 55mm, lateral leaflets to 80mm x 45mm. Axillary racemes to 450mm long with bracts 4.5mm x 2.5mm, of white, red or purple flowers 6.2mm standard, calyx lobes to 3.5mm long, wings 4.5mm x 2.6mm, keel 4.6mm x 3.5mm. Green pubescent articulated legume to 20mm long,

Medicinal uses, for coughs & other ailments

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• JAA
• FOPE
• SAFIO