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Desmodium vargasianum

Botanic Family
Leguminosae
Author
B.G. Schubert

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Climbing & spreading herb, sometimes scandent with pubescent striate stems. Mucronate puberulent leaves with terminal leaflets to 73mm x 46mm & lateral leaflets to 60mm x 27mm. Terminal racmemes with primary bracts to 10mm long, secondary bracts not always present. Pale violet-purple flowers, pilose calyx tube 2mm long with lobes to 5mm long, blue corolla, standard to 14mm long, wings to 13.5mm long, keel to 13.5mm long.

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