Two-Joint Desmodium is a spreading subshrub, base
woody, leaves trifoliate, 1 cm, leaflets elliptic/obovate 0.6-1 x
0.4-0.60 cm, laterals less than half as long as at branch-ends,
equilateral, stem-clasping, Flowers are borne in racemes 3.5-5 cm long.
Flowers are 4 mm across, flame coloured, monadelphous, Pod is oblong, 6
x 2.5 mm indented on both margins, articles densely rusty-woolly.
Identification credit: S. Kasim
Photographed in Ranipet, Tamil Nadu.
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