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Desmodium intortum
Desmodium intortum
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Miller) Urban
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Costa Rica
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Amazonas
- Distrito Federal
- Minas Gerais
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande do Sul
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Hispaniola
- Peru
- Venezuela
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Puerto Rico
- El Salvador
- Uruguay
- Arizona
- Virgin Islands - U.S.A.
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Humid forest
- scrubland
- thickets
- forest
- disturbed areas
- forest edge
- montane areas
- coastal thickets
Flowering Times
- Jan-Feb (Puerto Rico)
- Aug-May (Jamaica)
Fruiting Times
- Jan-Feb (Puerto Rico)
- Sep & May (Jamaica)
Herbaceous hairy climber or prostrate herb with pubescent or pilose 3-angled stems to 2m long. Trifoliolate or simple leaves strigulose above, strigose beneath with hooked hairs both surfaces, mucronate leaflets with blotch of silver on upper surface, terminal leaflet to 120mm x 70mm, lateral leaflets to 60mm x 33mm. Pubescent axillary or terminal pseudo-racemes to 300mm long with hooked hairs, primary bracts to 8mm long, secondary bracts not always present. 12mm wide blue to purple or purplish red to violet becoming bluish or greenish-white flowers, puberulent calyx with lobes to 5mm long, standard to 9mm x 6mm wings to 8mm x 3mm & keel to 8mm x 3mm. Fruit a densely hooked-hairy twisted 3-10 jointed pod to 45mm x 4mm with segments to 3.5mm long.
Used for forage
Further References
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FB
- NYBG
- FOC
- APDC
- Mansfeld
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- FOPE
- BMJ
- Standley