Rusty Dunbaria is a vine up to 8 m long. Branches have
short spreading velvety-hairs. Leaf axis is up to 7 cm long. Leaves are
trifoliate, up to 15 x 12 cm, last leaflet ovate-rhomboid, lateral ones
ovate. Leaflets are pointed to tapering, velvet-hairy on both surfaces.
Flowers are borne in racemes up to 12 cm long, 20-24-flowered;
flower-stalk 1.5 cm long. Sepal-cup is 1 cm long, velvet-hairy.
Flowers are yellow, 3.2 cm long. Petals remain attached to the flower
even on withering. Standard petals is round, eared. Wings are obliquely
obovate, spurred, keels curved, fused at tip. Pods are stalked,
4-5-seeded, softly short tawny-velvet-hairy, 4 x 1 cm. Rusty Dunbaria
is found in Peninsular India, Sri Lanka and Indo-China. Flowering:
November-April.
Identification credit: S. Kasim
Photographed in Javvadi Hills, Thiruvannamali Dist, Tamil Nadu.
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