Pycnospora lutescens

Pycnospora lutescens (Poir.) Schindl., J. Bot. 64: 145 (1926) (syn: Colutea trifoliata (L.) Poir.; Crotalaria nallamalayana Rasingam & J.Swamy; Crotalaria nervosa Graham; Crotalaria tappenbeckiana K.Schum. & Lauterb.; Desmodium lutescens (Poir.) DC.; Desmodium viride Vogel; Flemingia polysperma Moon; Hedysarum lutescens Poir.; Meibomia lutescens (Poir.) Kuntze; Meibomia viridis (Vogel) Kuntze; Phaca trifoliata L.; Phyllodium lutescens (Poir.) Desv.; Pycnospora hedysaroides Benth.; Pycnospora nervosa Wight & Arn.; Zornia lutescens (Poir.) Steud.);
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E. Central & E. Tropical Africa, Tropical & Subtropical Asia to N. Australia: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zaïre as per POWO;
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Common name: Tiny Sweetvetch • Malayalam: നീര പുല്ലരീ Nir-pullari
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Trailing herbs, upto 75 cm long. Young stem, petioles and peduncles pubescent with short hooked hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate; middle leaflet 1-1.5 x 0.8-1.2 cm, ovate-obovate, cuneate at base, obtuse or slightly emarginate at tip; laterals 0.8-1.2 x 0.6-0.8 cm, elliptic, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; stipules 5-7 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers in 2-5-flowered terminal racemes. Calyx minute, lobes deeply 2-cleft; teeth subulate. Corolla 2-3 mm long, purple. Ovary c. 1 mm long, oblong; ovules many. Pods 6-8 x 5-6 mm, oblong, turgid, hirsute, black when mature.
Flowering and fruiting: September-December
Deciduous forests, also in the plains
(Attributions: Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi as per India Biodiversity Portal)
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219 ID wild plant Crotalaria:
Please ID wild plant, very rare,
Location: near Reserve Forest, Chathamattom, Ernakulam District, (Kochi) Kerala PIN:686671
Altitude: 1400fsl
Flower date: 05.12.2021, 12.55pm
Habitat: wild moisture
Plant habit: small shrub, erect, obliquely, branches, slender semi hard stem, hairy, annual
Height: 03 feet
Leaves: alternate, tripartite, leaflets ovate, size:07×3cm
Flower: racemose, diameter:06.5mm, pink, non fragrant
Fruit: capsule green into brown, size:11×04mm
Seed:
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