I think Santhan ji is right. It looks like *Tephrosia villosa *to me, too.
Regards Vijayasankar ------------------------------------------------------------------- Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, Santhan sir, but the species T. villosa does not match according to > this description- > '' > BOTANIC DESCRIPTION > Tephrosia villosa is an annual or perennial bushy herb, 0.3-1.3 m tall. > Stem white tomentose. > Leaves imparipinnately compound with 7-19 leaflets, up to 10 cm long; > stipules 2-5 mm long; leaflets obovate to elliptical, up to 21 mm x 9 mm, > hairy on both sides, each side with 4-8 pairs of distinct veins. Stipules > tomentose, caducous and lanceolate. > Flowers in a terminal or upper axillary pseudoraceme 8-22 cm long; > pedicel with densely matted hairs, 2-4 mm long; calyx densely matted- > hairy, tube about 2 mm long, lobes long-acuminate, to 9 mm long; > standard transversely elliptical to broadly ovate, up to 7 mm x 10 mm, > dorsally with dense brown hairs. Style glabrous, up to 3-5 mm long, bent > sharply upward at base, twisted, penicillate. > Pod strongly curved, up to 4 cm x 6 mm, densely silvery or brown- > tomentose, hairs to 2 mm long, 4-10-seeded. > Seed 12-16, rectangular, black, smooth, with short hard excrescences, up > to 4.5 mm x 2.5-2.75 mm. '' > > > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Santhan P <[email protected]> wrote: > >> *Tephrosia* *villosa* (L.) Pers. >> <http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/ild-5081>, frequent weed in >> open lands, >> >> >> On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 10:28:19 PM UTC+5:30, Anurag Sharma wrote: >> >>> Is this Desmodium sp. ? >>> Bangalore, 15th June >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/W49HoCBZG4c/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
