Desmodium microphyllum


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Trailing to erect perennial herb ; leaves trifoliate with elliptic-obovate  to oblong leaflets up to 10 mm long, petiole 3-4 mm long; Flowers pink often tinged with blue in up to 10-flowered raceme; bract boat-shaped; pedicel up to 12 mm long; calyx lobes linear; keel longer than wings; pod 10-12 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, 3-4 jointed.
 

 
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Fabaceae-Faboideae (Papilionaceae) Week: Desmodium microphyllum????? from Assan barrage Dakpathar: This small herb photographed along Assan barrage Dakpathar in September, appears to be Desmodium microphyllum with rounded leaflet apex. Kindly give your opinion
It looks me like Desmodium heterocarpon
Desmodium heterocarpon is a much larger shrub with leaflets longer than 3 cm and flowers in a terminal or axillary up to 7 cm long raceme.
This one was a much smaller plant, leaflets barely 1 cm or less long and flowers in few-flowered raceme.

 
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Flora of Chakrata: Desmodium sp.4 for id:  This yet another Desmodium sp. was shot in September 2011 from Chakrata and neighbourhood....which sp. is this? I hope these pics can help identify..
I think same D. triflorum
Thanks for inputs sir, this does not appear same to me...though not clear in the pics, but leaves here are not trifoliate, leaf(lets) not emarginate...moreover the pedicels are hairy...hoping for reconsideration....
Yes ..., the leaves appear to be simple. Let us wait to get ID
This is Desmodium microphyllum
Thanks ... for inputs..perhaps more investigation is required....Please go through this link..

I think ... is correct, as was tentative identification of my plant in the link. According to Flora of China 1-foliate condition is common in D. microphyllum.
Thanks ... for your independant conclusion which helps settling about my plant also.
It means the plant posted in the above link is not D. microphyllum (and may be D. triflorum)...
Yes ..., still some confusion. Three plants and only two names:


 
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Desmodium microphyllum (Thunb.) DC., Prodr. 2:337. 1825.
Syn: Hedysarum microphyllum Thunb.
Trailing to erect perennial herb ; leaves trifoliate with elliptic-obovate  to oblong leaflets up to 10 mm long, petiole 3-4 mm long; Flowers pink often tinged with blue in up to 10-flowered raceme; bract boat-shaped; pedicel up to 12 mm long; calyx lobes linear; keel longer than wings; pod 10-12 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, 3-4 jointed.
Photographed from Chakrata Tiger Fall road in Uttarakhand.

Perhaps similar to Desmodium microphyllum  but with less flattened pods., photographed from the same area on Chakrata Tiger fall road in September
Desmodium microphyllum


Fabaceae-Faboideae (Papilionaceae) Week: perhaps Desmodium sp for ID from Chakrata Tiger fall road: Small herbaceous plant perhaps a species of Desmodium with flowers in small clusters, bluish and 3-4 seeded more or less flattened pods. Photographed from Chakrata Tiger fall road in September.
Mine also still unided Sir
I think it is Desmodium microphyllum (Thung.) DC. This grows in waste places and along road side, also very common inside pine forest and it can go upto 2200m
Desmodium microphyllum

Please validate the id of this herb, recorded from Chakrata..
Earlier deliberations led me to Desmodium microphyllum..
Indeed it is Desmodium microphyllum


 
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Please suggest if this herb, from Gori valley, can be Desmodium microphyllum or otherwise.. 
D.microphyllum

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Fabaceae-Faboideae (Papilionaceae) Week : Shrubs/Herbs :Plant for ID 17/11/2011 SMP1: A small herb with trifoliate leaves.
Can this be Desmodium trifolium ?
Rachis, pedicel, calyx with long spreading hairs, flowers more than 3, flowers pink....could be Desmodium microphyllum
I also think close to the images at Desmodium microphyllum (Thunb.) DC.
 
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Desmodium microphyllum (Thunb.)DC. : 10 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (10)- around 550 kb each. 
Location: Nagarkot,  Kathmandu
Date: 03 August  2019
Elevation: 1888 m.
Habit : Wild
Nepali Names : मिरिए झार Miriye Jhaar । बुटे कनिके Bute Kanike । सानो चरिमेली Saano Charimelee । भमरे फूल Bhamare Phool । बाख्रे घाँस Baakhre Ghaans

In this case also only POWO showing Leptodesmia microphylla (Thunb.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi as the accepted name and the CoL and GBIF as D. microphyllum

Yes. Matches with images at Desmodium microphyllum (Thunb.) DC.

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Desmodium microphyllum (Thunb.)DC. : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (6)- around 900 kb each. 
Location:  Harthok, Palpa
Date: 25 September 2019
Elevation:1400 m.
Habit : Wild
Nepali Names : बुटे कनिके Bute kanike/ भमरे फूल Bhamare hool/ बाख्रे घाँस Baakhrte Ghaans/ मिरिए झार  Miriye Jhaar/ सानो चरिमेली Saano Charimelee  

Attachments (1)- 6 mb. 

is this on the ground or sides of your trekking pathway at about 4200 ft asl.
can any goat or sheep get to eat these?
Trail Wall.



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