Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. (Syn.: Desmodium buergeri Miq. .; Desmodium heterocarpon var. buergeri (Miq.) Hosok. .; Desmodium heterocarpum (L.) DC. [Spelling variant] .; Desmodium ovalifolium (Prain) Wallich ex Ridley; Desmodium polycarpum sensu R.O.Williams (Misapplied); Desmodium polycarpum (Poir.) DC.; Hedysarum heterocarpon L.; Hedysarum polycarpum Poir.; Hedysarum siliquosum Burm.f.; Meibomia heterocarpa (L.) Kuntze; Desmodium polycarpum var. trichocaulon (DC.) Baker; Desmodium toppinii Schindl.; Meibomia buergeri (Miq.) Kuntze); Fabaceae-Faboideae (Papilionaceae) Week :: Desmodium heterocarpon in northern Western Ghats: des-MOH-dee-um — from the Greek desmos (band or chain), refers to jointed seed pods
het-er-oh-KAR-pon — from the Greek heteros (different) and karpos (fruit)Sep 30, 2007 … at Nagla block of Sanjay Gandhi National Park commonly known as: carpon desmodium • Marathi: जांभळी दशमी jambhali dashmi Native to: e tropical Africa, s China, e & s-e Asia, Indian subcontinent, n Australia, Pacific; naturalized elsewhere some views: Sep 30, 2007 … at Nagla block of Sanjay Gandhi National Park Our from Chakrata have much less dense inflorescence. Desmodium heterocarpon Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC.
Loc: Upper Siang distt., Arunachal Pradesh Date: Sept., 2007 The raceme cluster with many flowers tightly packed together looks awesome. Nice photographs !!! These are some of mine.
NOID Pink Purple 3: GMP 003 – 0311/2011: Looks like a species of Desmodium of Leguminosae family. Looks like Desmodium heterocarpon to me. I think … is right.
Please identify this herb 3 – NS 8 : 13 posts by 6 authors. Attachments (3) can we have sizes of leaflets, raceme and corollas? Also if Will do, but after 2 weeks. Thanks … Kept a watch on it and it turned out to be Desmodium congestum [Tapoti].
While most self-respecting Desmodium congestums generally flower & fruit between September and October, this one probably a straggler flowered only in November and fruited in December….hence the confusion.
Sending a few photographs. Look like Desmodium congestum I find two species with the same name as per link (http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/search?q=Desmodium+congestum+):
Which one is the posted species ? It does not look like Leptodesmia congesta Baker (= Desmodium congestum (Wight) Benth., Nicolsonia congesta Wight), which is illustrated at plantillustrations
It is also not Desmodium congestum Wight & Arn. (= Dendrolobium triangulare (Retz.) Schindl.), as per the diagram at plantillustrations So I guess the ID is still unresolved?! The inflorescence doesn’t look like ‘congested’. To me it somewhat resembles D. heterocarpon but not sure. I agree with … It matches with images at Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC.
ID: Desmodium(?):
Is it Desmodium sp. ? Please ID for it. Location: Mirza (Kamrup, Assam) Date of collection : 09/09/2010 Habit : Prostrate herb This looks like Desmodium heterocarpon. My photographs of this for comparison are available in the archives of this group. Fabaceae (Faboideae) Fortnight: Desmodium heterocarpon from Chakrata-GSOCT22/27 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (3) Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) , Prodr. 2: 337. 1825.
Erect to prostrate shrubs or subshrub, branched from base; leaves trifoliate on 1-2 cm long pertiole; leaflets elliptic to broadly obovate, up to 6 cm long, white pubescent beneath, glabrous above; flowers purple to purple-red on up to 8 cm long racemes; pedicel 3-4 mm long; keel curved; pod up to 2 cm long, 4-7 jointed, sutures hairy.
Growing on hill sloe along road in chakrata area; leaves trifoliate, pods in dense raceme, long hairy, photographed in September . Fabaceae-Faboideae (papilionaceae) Week: Desmodium sp-2 from Chakrata: It looks close to Desmodium heterocarpon. Let’s await for more comments. Agreed with … ID. I was about to respond this. I will upload my collections soon. Yes … I think you are right. I was slightly confused about sessile pod. After seeing the illustration on eFlora of China I realized that it refers to almost absence of stipe above calyx and not direct absence of pedicel. yes even i guess Desmodium heterocarpon I too think that … is correct with the id. please enable the ID
LOCATION : KANNUR, KERALA May be Desmodium triflorum. efi page on Desmodium triflorum It looks some other plant than Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC. this is Desmodium heterocarpon ANFEB17 Desmodium sp. for identification : 8 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (11)
Family: Fabaceae Desmodium species in eFloraofindia (with details/ keys from published papers/ regional floras/ FRLHT/ FOI/ Biotik/ efloras/ books etc., where ever available) It looks like Uraria sp. (Not Desmodium) Uraria species in eFloraofindia (with details/ keys from published papers/ regional floras/ FRLHT/ FOI/ Biotik/ efloras/ books etc., where ever available) It somewhat resembles Desmodium heterocarpon. I think it matches D. heterocarpon. [efloraofindia:231480] Flora of Kaiga_ID_Please_11092015 PK2]]] : 4 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2)
Date/Time-:10/09/15 – 08:30 Does not look like Desmodium triquetrum (now Tadehagi triquetrum) as leaves are trifoliate and petiole is not winged.
I am not able to decide whether it is Desmodium or Uraria. Fruits may help. This is Desmodium heterocarpon [efloraofindia:231508] Flora of Kaiga_ID_Please_11092015 PK2] : 3 posts by 3 authors.
Date/Time-:10/09/15 – 08:30 Desmodium sp. Fabaceae Is this Desmodium triquetrum L(DC) Pl confirm Leaves are simple and petiole is winged in D. triquetrum. It could be Desmodium heterocarpon Agree, D. heterocarpon is a better match
, Fabaceae (Faboideae) Fortnight: Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. from Assam KD 13 OCT15 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2) Fabaceae (Faboideae) Fortnight :: Desmodium heterocarpon :: Nagla forest & Tungareshwar WLS :: DVOCT66 : 1 post by 1 author. 9 images.
Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. at Nagla forest on September 30, 2007
at Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary on September 27, 2008
at Nagla forest on December 1, 2012
Fabaceae (Faboideae) Fortnight :: For id- Desmodium :: Morni:: NS OCT 44/44 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4)
Your valued suggestions are required to conclude specific id of this taxon, recorded from Morni Hills, Haryana..
Can this be D. heterocarpon ? …, I too think this must be Desmodium heterocarpon. Desmodium heterocarpon : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5)
Sharing some pictures I guess is Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. shot at Teenpiple, Jitpurphedi, Nepal on 27 August 2016 at 4500 ft.
Please veryfy ID. yes, it is . Desmodium : 3 posts by 2 authors.
whether any one collected the var, form. Or sub species of Desmodium heterocarpon from india Thanks, … Pl. check different threads under Desmodium heterocarpon
Also check under: Desmodium heterocarpon ? Adding fruit ! Attachments (2)
SK144OCT16-2016:ID : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (7)
Sharing some pictures for ID shot at Pashupati Forest Kathmandu Nepal today (17.10.16) at 4400 ft. Desmodium species, may be D. heterocarpon Desmodium multiflorum DC. ?? Legume shape size is completely different from D. microphyllum ! Small size of leaflets is creating doubts about D. multiflorum:
Shrubs, erect, 1-2 m tall, yellow to white pubescent, becoming glabrescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 1.5-4 cm, densely tomentose; terminal leaflet blade elliptic or obovate, 5-10 × 3-6 cm, base cuneate or nearly rounded, apex obtuse or acute, mucronate.
As per Flora of Pakistan:
Erect shrub, branches grey silky. Leaf trifoliolate, petiole 2.5-6.5 cm long, leaflets 7.5-10 cm long, c. 5 cm broad, ovate or obovate, rounded at both ends, mucronate, glabrescent above, densely appressed hairy below; stipules c. 7.5 mm long.
This is something else. It is Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. only as already identified by … and as rightly placed in efi site. Date/Time – 08-12-09/9.30pm How about Desmodium heterocarpon (L.)..? … me to have the same feeling … Desmodium heterocarpon. Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Location: Sukute, Sindhupalchok, Nepal
Date : 4 September, 2017
Elevation : 2200 ft.
Nepali Name : दाम्पाते Daampaate / साखिनो झार Saakhino Jhaar / बाख्रे घाँस Baakhre Ghaans
. Names of Plants in India :: Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. : 10 posts by 4 authors.
via Species > D > Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. … family: Fabaceae ~ Papilionaceae
des-MOH-dee-um — from the Greek desmos (band or chain), refers to jointed seed pods … Dave’s Botanary het-er-oh-KAR-pon — from the Greek heteros (different) and karpos (fruit) … Dave’s Botanary commonly known as: Asian tick trefoil, carpon desmodium • Kannada: ಕಾಡು ಮೂವಿಲೆ kaadu moovile • Malayalam: നിലത്തുവര nilaththuvara • Marathi: जांभळी दशमी jambhali dashami • Sanskrit: शालपर्णी salaparni • Telugu: చెప్పుతట్ట chepputatta • Tulu: ಕಾಟ್ಟುಮೂಜಿರೆ kattumoojire botanical names: Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. … synonyms: Desmodium heterocarpum (L.) DC. [Spelling variant] • Hedysarum heterocarpon L. … status at The Plants List (2013). Version 1.1. September 30, 2007 … Nagla forest (part of SGNP) as this desmodium heterocarpon has been declared here as Sanskrit: शालपर्णी salaparni. I would like to make it more clear that in Ayurveda the Desmodium gangeticum is used in the name of shaliparni not the heterocarpon species. Thanks …
I am in full agreement with your thoughts. Desmodium gangeticum is the only शालपर्णी salaparni. If we click on this blue underlined name, it will lead us to a page where I have put the bibliography. I have copy-pasted the contents of the page below. At the bottom, I have put my observation / finding. Henceforth, I will put maroon colour to the names which are ambiguous, but I do need to list the erroneous entries from the sites that have quoted them. Only then the sites may get to know of taking any corrective action. They themselves have depended on OR referred some other source. ¿ GRON-ah ? — derivation obscure; perhaps, from Greek grono (cave) … Dave’s Botanary commonly known as: Asian tick trefoil, carpon desmodium • Assamese: সৰু গছ বিয়নী সাৱটা horu gos bioni savata • Bengali: বনমেথি banamethi, মোহিনী mohini • Kannada: ಕಾಡು ಮೂವಿಲೆ kaadu moovile • Malayalam: നിലത്തുവര nilaththuvara • Marathi: जांभळी दशमी jambhali dashami • Mizo: ber-bek • Nepali: बाख्रे घाँस baakhre ghaans, दाम्पाते daampaate, साखिनो झार saakhino jhaar • Telugu: చెప్పుతట్ట chepputatta • Tulu: ಕಾಟ್ಟುಮೂಜಿರೆ kattumoojire botanical names: Grona heterocarpos (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi … synonyms: Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. • Hedysarum heterocarpon L. • Meibomia heterocarpon (L.) Kuntze • Pleurolobus heterocarpon (L.) J.St.-Hil. … accepted infraspecifics: Grona heterocarpos var. gymnocarpa (Schindl.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi • Grona heterocarpos subsp. heterocarpos • Grona heterocarpos subsp. ovalifolia (Prain) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi • Grona heterocarpos var. strigosa (Meeuwen) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi … POWO Bibliography / etymology ~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~
Asian tick trefoil
carpon desmodium
~~~~~ ASSAMESE ~~~~~
সৰু গছ বিয়নী সাৱটা horu gos bioni savata
~~~~~ BENGALI ~~~~~
বনমেথি banamethi
মোহিনী mohini
~~~~~ DOGRI ~~~~~
no given name
~~~~~ GUJARATI ~~~~~
no given name
~~~~~ HINDI ~~~~~
no given name
~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~
ಕಾಡು ಮೂವಿಲೆ kaadu moovile
~~~~~ KASHMIRI ~~~~~
no given name
~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~
നിലത്തുവര nilaththuvara
~~~~~ MANIPURI ~~~~~
no given name
~~~~~ MARATHI ~~~~~
जांभळी दशमी jambhali dashami
~~~~~ MIZO ~~~~~
ber-bek
~~~~~ NEPALI ~~~~~
बाख्रे घाँस baakhre ghaans, दाम्पाते daampaate, साखिनो झार saakhino jhaar
~~~~~ PUNJABI ~~~~~
no given name
~~~~~ RAJASTHANI ~~~~~
no given name
~~~~~ SANSKRIT ~~~~~
शालपर्णी salaparni … improper name
~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~
no given name
~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~
చెప్పుతట్ట chepputatta
~~~~~ TULU ~~~~~
ಕಾಟ್ಟುಮೂಜಿರೆ kattumoojire
~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
for synonym Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. … Andhra Pradesh; Arunachal Pradesh; Assam; Bihar; Dadra-Nagar-Haveli; Delhi; Goa; Gujarat; Haryana; Himachal Pradesh; Jammu-Kashmir; Karnataka; Kerala; Madhya Pradesh; Maharashtra; Manipur; Meghalaya; Mizoram; Nagaland; Odisha; Pondicherry; Punjab; Rajasthan; Sikkim; Tamil Nadu; Tripura; Uttar Pradesh; West Bengal … ILDIS World Database of Legumes
~~~~~ x ~~~~~
Names compiled / updated at
https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2022/06/grona-heterocarpos-l-hohashi-kohashi.html Flora of Kaiga_for ID 26072018 PK1 : 7 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1)
Pl see Attached pic for ID. from Kaiga, Uttarakannada Western Ghats.
Date/Time-:17/09/2017 – 13:30,
Location- Place, Altitude – Kaiga, Uttar Kannada, Karnataka, 380 mtrs Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ – Wild Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Shrub Lupinus sp. do you have pictures of the leaves. lupins i am used to seeing have narrow leaves. your plant seems to be with oval or similar at least wider leaves Please check for Desmodium heterocarpon … is nearer the point: being Desmodium
Looks like Desmodium heterocarpon.
Sagargad flowers – efloraofindia | Google Groups Fabaceae-Faboideae (Papilionaceae) Week: Desmodium heterocarpon (RD_014): ID please 08062012 SR-2:
Date-08.10.2011 Place- Chilapata reserve forest, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal Habitat-Wild Herb This is a species of Desmodium possibly D. heterocarpon. Please check the archives of this group for my photographs of this. I searched the efI site and found the post of the same plant by … – efi thread 1.
Another post of the same species by …
Yet another by …- efi thread 2
One pic from China – http://www.cvh.org.cn/final/80/128763309173750000a.jpg … me too think this plant to be Desmodium heterocarpon. To me also D. heterocarpon. But there is 3 verities are reported in this species. So the proper identification of taxa is difficult here using this picture.
Flora of Kaiga_ID_Please_11092015 PK2 : 6 posts by 6 authors. Attachments (1) Date/Time-:10/09/15 – 08:30
Location- Place, Altitude – Kaiga , Uttar Kannada ,Karnataka, 380 mtrs Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- wild Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Herb – Shrub Length- 3ft Desmodium sp. Fabaceae Is this Desmodium triquetrum L(DC). Pl confirm Leaves are simple and petiole is winged in D. triquetrum.
A photo of fruits would help in identification. It could be Desmodium heterocarpon. Agree, D. heterocarpon is a better match. SK1577 17 Nov 2018 : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)- around 600 kb each.
Location: Victoria Peak, Hong Kong
Date: 2 November 2018
Elevation: 1300 ft.
Habit : Wild Which Desmodium ??
Yes. Quite possible.
Desmodium heterocarpon
Location: Sundarijal, Kathmandu
Date: 30 September 2019
Elevation: 1577 m.
Habit : Wild Syn: Desmodium multiflorum DC.
Attachments (2)-1 & 5 mb. Attachments (1)-6 mb.
Same date and same location ! Location: Harthok, Palpa
Date: 25 September 2019
Elevation:1400 m.
Habit : Wild
Attachments (3)-1, 2 & 2 mb. Attachments (2) -2 & 4 mb. Attachments (1)- 6 mb.
Nepali Names : बाख्रे घाँस Baakhre Ghaans / भटमासे फूल Bhatamaase Phool / कैरोची kairochee / भट्टे Bhatte / लहरे साजन Lahare Saajan / तिल Til
yes and very nice. I have always wondered when see these fabaceae plants, do local animals eat them? or local people do something with their seeds?
Root powder taken to relieve hyper acidity and its juice cures peptic ulcer. No other usage as such. that’s a lot. very useful to the ethnic people in the hills then Yes indeed. I think Desmodium concinnum DC.
Going by the habit, it may rather appears to be more closer to Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. Desmodium heterocarpon FOR VALIDATION :: Pookode lake, Wayanad :: 13 NOV 19 : 3 posts by 2 authors. 4 images.
Pookode Lake Wayanad Date: November 13, 2019 … Altitude: about 770 m (2,530 ft) asl
¿ Desmodium heterocarpon ? Dear friends,
I think this could be Desmodium heterocarpon; please validate. These plants were in a small colony on bank of the lake; and they were just about a foot high. The trifoliate leaves have a hint of variegation. Plant id ASSAM @KB_0001 : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) – 1 mb.
Need suggestion on this whether it is a Crotalaria sp.?
Habit: Small herb growing along with grass
Location: Assam
Flowers are solitary or in cymose panicle.
Year of collection: 2016
Desmodium multiflorum DC. This is not Desmodium multiflorum Fabaceae (Faboideae)Fortnight:: Desmodium sp?? ::Mizoram::PKA-OCT-100 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)
Id requested for this Fabaceae sp. from Mizoram.
Date/Time: 8th Nov./ 06:45AM
Location: Aizawl, Mizoram
Habitat: Wild
Plant Habit: Climber
Leaves: trifoliate Desmodium species in eFloraofindia (with details/ keys from published papers/ regional floras/ FRLHT/ FOI/ Biotik/ efloras/ books etc., where ever available on net) Fabaceae from Mizoram-110610-PKA2 : Attachments (2). 6 posts by 4 authors.
Id requested for this Fabaceae sp. from Mizoram.
Date/Time: 8th Nov./ 06:45AM
Location: Aizawl, Mizoram
Habitat: Wild
Plant Habit: Climber
Leaves: trifoliate It is a Desmodium sp. This is Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. as per images and details herein. Location : Chottagong
Flowering : November
Photo taken : Nov, 2018
Desmodium sp., more pics required..
Desmodium heterocarpon ?? Grona heterocarpos (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi MS Oct,2018/17 Desmodium tortuosum ? for id/confirmation : 6 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Location : Ailawng, Mizoram Date : 24-10-2018
Habit : Perennial herb or Subshrub
Habitat : Wild
Thanks, … Looks different. Pl. check comparative images at Pl. check Desmodium multiflorum DC. To me looks different from images at Desmodium multiflorum
I could not find a match as per comparative images at Desmodium
What are the species reported from your area ?
The following Desmodium spp. are reported in Mizoram :- Desmodium cephalotoides, D.concinnum, D.gangeticum, D.gyroides, D.heterocarpon, D.laxiflorum, D.microphyllum, D.motorium, D.multiflorum, D.oblongum, D.pulchellum, D.repandum, D.sequax, D.triangulare, D.triflorum, D.triwurtrum ssp.pseudotriquetrum & ssp.triquetrum and D.velutinum. Any keys, …? 3 attachments This is Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC.
Renamed: Grona heterocarpos (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi . Requesting a shrub id.: 2 high res. images. Shrub
It was found growing in pathways adjoining hillocks and boulders.
It has a pretty purple colored inflorescence, each flower shows papilionaceous corolla.
IISER TVM campus adjoining Agasthyamalai biosphere reserve.
Uraria sp. Yes … ! Uraria rufescens (DC.) Schindler would be correct ?’ I think it is more closer to images at Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. rather than Uraria rufescens (DC.) Schindl. . Please ID wild plant,
Location: near Reserve Forest, Chathamattom, Ernakulam District, (Kochi) Kerala PIN:686671 Altitude: 1400fsl Flower date: 18.11.2021, 04.25pm Habitat: wild, moisture, waste land Plant habit: under shrub, erect, branches, semi hard stem 05mm base diameter, hairy main young stem, annual Height: 04 feet Leaves: alternate, tripartite, ovate, size:03×2cm Flower: racemose, pyramidal, clustered, diameter:03.5mm, blue, non fragrant Fruit: beans jointly, compressed, hairy, green into brown, size:02×0.3cm Seed: Camera: mobile Samsung Galaxy A21s Check Desmodium heterocarpon Yes, it is dear …, thank you very much for ID my plant, Desmodium heterocarpon Sharing more images and information
Seed: yellow, 07 nos., pea shaped, size:02x01mm . 213 ID wild plant Desmodium: 19 images. Please confirm that erect and creeping Desmodiums are under one ID, Pl. check images at the given link. . ID 05/02/22: 2 high res. images. Please check Fabaceae at efi. Desmodium heterophyllum I think it is more likely to be Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. rather than Desmodium heterophyllum (Willd.) DC. . ID KZD 02011122: 1 image. Grona heterocarpos (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi Yes, it appears close to images at Desmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC. Name changed ! . Fabaceae member from Assam KD 01 Oct 24: 3 images. Grona heterocarpos (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi
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