Field Snoutbean is a twinning herb with slender, woody
branches, densely grey velvet-hairy. Leaf stalks are 2.5-5 cm long,
stiff. Leaves are trifoliate with leaflets rhomboid-round, thick,
leathery, greenish, thinly velvet-hairy above, densely so beneath. The
end leaflet is ovate long-pointed, 7-10 cm long. Flower-cluster-stalks
are equal to or longer than the leaf-stalks. Flower-stalks 3-6 mm long,
bracts lanceshaped, falling off. Sepal cup is 1.2-1.8 cm long, densely
silky, teeth linear-bristly, the lowest longest, 2-4 times as long as
the tube. Flowers are 1.2 cm, standard petal grey-velvety outside.
Pods are oblique, oblong,
firm, 2.5-4 cm long, 1.2 cm broad, 2-seeded. Field Snoutbean is found
in India to SE Asia.
Identification credit: Rakesh Singh
Photographed in Surat, Gujarat.
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