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Asian Tick Trefoil
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Asian Tick Trefoil
ative trifoliate Photo: Dinesh Valke
Common name: Asian Tick Trefoil, Carpon Desmodium, Asian ticktrefoil • Kannada: ಕಾಡು ಮೂವಿಲೆ kaadu moovile • Malayalam: നിലത്തുവര nilaththuvara • Marathi: जांभळी दशमी jambhali dashami • Sanskrit: शालपर्णी salaparni • Telugu: చెప్పుతట్ట chepputatta • Tulu: ಕಾಟ್ಟುಮೂಜಿರೆ kattumoojire • Mizo: Hlah-tha • Nepali: गहते Gahate, बाख्रे घाँस Baakhre Ghaans, दाम्पाते Daampaate, साखिनो झार Saakhino Jhaar Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Grona heterocarpos    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Desmodium heterocarpon, Hedysarum heterocarpon
Asian Tick Trefoil is a nearly erect subshrub usually 0.5-1.5 m tall. Stems usually many-branched, appressed pubescent in upper part. Leaves 1-3-foliolate, leaflets usually elliptic, terminal one 2.5-6 cm long. Flowers numerous in racemose inflorescences 5-10 cm long. Flowers pink to purplish red, pea like. Pods narrowly oblong, 4-8-jointed, 1-2.8 cm long, densely hooked pubescent,2.5-3 mm long, 2-3 mm wide.
Identification credit: Pravin Kawal, Dinesh Valke Photographed at Nagla forests, Maharashtra.
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