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Desmodium velutinum

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Willdenow) de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Australia
• Benin
• Burkina
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Cambodia
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• China
• Comoros
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• India
• Indonesia
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Laos
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Malaysia
• Mali
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Uganda
• Vietnam
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest.

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (India)

Fruiting Times

Sometimes lianescent pubescent shrub or woody herb, stems clothed in rufous down when young. Mucronulate coriaceous leaves velvety both surfaces 125mm x 75mm scabrous above pubescent beneath. Terminal & axillary racemes to 300mm long of purple or red flowers, 4mm corolla, 2mm calyx densely silky, hooked-hairy jointed legume 20mm x 3mm

Further References

• APDC
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• ILDIS