| Variable-Leaf Desmodium |
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| Original date | 8/24/17 9:28 AM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Grona heterophylla Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Desmodium heterophyllum, Hedysarum reptans, Hedysarum heterophyllum
Synonyms: Desmodium heterophyllum, Hedysarum reptans, Hedysarum heterophyllum
Variable-Leaf Desmodium is a prostrate herb, up to 40
cm long; branches loosely hairy, slender. Leaves are 3-foliolate;
leaflets 1-2.2 x 0.5-1 cm, ovate-elliptic or obovate, base blunt, tip
rounded, hairy when young, becoming hairless on ageing; leaf-stalk to 2
cm long; stipules 2-5 mm long, ovate-lanceshaped, striped, fringed with
hairs on margins. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, in 1-4-flowered
racemes; flower-stalks 6-12 mm long. Sepal-tube is broad; sepals 2-2.5
mm long, triangular with subulate tip, loosely hairy without. Flowers
are pink, pea-flower shaped, 3-4 mm long. Ovary 1.5-2 mm long, hairy.
Pods are 1.5-2 x 0.4-0.5 cm, 4-5-jointed, compressed, dorsal suture
continuous, ventral constricted. Variable-Leaf Desmodium is found in
Indo-Malesia and China.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in the outskirts of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. |
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