Good one Prasad. So from your pictures this Desmodium is having a large leaf as compared to many others posted earlier.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:17 PM, prasad dash <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear members sending the photograph of *Desmodium velutinum* taken from > Ranpur > > > Name of the species: *Desmodium velutinum* > > Family: Papilionaceae > > Place of collection: Ranpur, Nayagarh, Orissa > > Habit: Shrub up to 3 m tall. > > Habitat: Wild, dry deciduous to moist deciduous forests and also in open > forests. > > Altitude: 200 to 400 m above msl > > Description: Leaves alternate, simple, penni-veined, hairy. Flowers ca. 8 > mm long, purple, placed in long racemes. Fruits long, yellow, beaded pods. > > * * > > Regards > > > > Prasad > > -- > Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Orissa, India > email: [email protected] > ph. 09437444241 > -- Dr Satish Phadke
