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Desmodium scorpiurus

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Swartz) Desvaux ex de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• forest
• disturbed areas
• riverside
• montane areas
• wasteland
• cultivated ground

Flowering Times

• Jun-Feb Apr

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Mar

Herbaceous prostrate or climbing herb or subshrub with angled pilose stems. Trifoliate pilose leaves strigose beneath, terminal leaflet to 20mm x 10mm, lateral leaflets to 15mm x 7mm. Subterminal or leaf-opposed puberulent racemes with primary bracts 5mm long & secondary bracts 2mm long, white & blue or purple flowers to 4mm, pilose calyx with lobes 2mm long, standard 3.5mm x 1.25mm, wings 3.5mm x 1.25mm, keel 4mm x 1.5mm. Hairy articulated legume to 5mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• APDC
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• SAFIO
• Standley