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Desmodium gangeticum (L.) DC
Common Name : Sal leaved desmodium
Family : Fabaceae
A common undershrub, usually 0.6-1.2 m tall.
Simple, straight, irregularly angled; branches
densely hairy.
Unifoliate; leaflets membranous, broadly
elliptic to ovate or sometimes lanceolate, 9-12.5
cm long and 3.5-6.3 cm wide, base rounded or
acute, apex acute or acuminate, margins
somewhat wavy, usually glabrescent on upper
surface, pale green and clothed with soft
whitish appressed hairs beneath.
Flowers violet or white, borne in fascicles of 2-5
flowers in lax, 40-60-floewered, terminal and
axillary racemes, 15-30 cm long.
Pod linear to slightly curved, 1.2-2 cm long and
2 mm wide; joints 4-8, reticulate, longer than
broad, indehiscent, sparsely clothed with
minute hooked hairs.
Weed ID Manual 129