Dry Alyce Clover is a spreading herb with stem
velvet-hairy. Leaves are unifoliolate, leaf-stalk 2-6 mm, leaflets
elliptic-oblong, 0.7-2.7 cm long, 0.4-1.6 cm broad, entire, blunt,
hairless above, hairy below. Flowers are borne in dense racemes in
leaf-axils, stalkless or shortly stalked, 0.8-2.0 cm long, axis hairy.
Sepal-cup is papery, 6-9 mm long, tapering, hairy, hairs white
spreading. Pod are 3-seeded, beaded, one seeded portion 1.5-2 mm long,
about 2.5 mm broad, transversely ribbed, minutely hairy. Dry Alyce
Clover is native to Indian Subcontinent to Myanmar, including the
Himalayas. Flowering: April-October.
Identification credit: Milind Girdhari
Photographed near Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
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