Hi Dr. Balkar Singh, This does not look like Desmodium laxiflorum to me. My photographs for comparison are available at this link : https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/539ade01bf2ce57e/646cca2b0e93f50b?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=Desmodium+laxiflorum+Neil+Soares#646cca2b0e93f50b With regards, Neil Soares.
--- On Fri, 11/11/11, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: From: Balkar Singh <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:93901] Fabaceae-Faboideae (Papilionaceae) Week: Desmodium laxiflorum from near Dakpathar on Chakrata road To: "Satish Phadke" <[email protected]> Cc: "Gurcharan Singh" <[email protected]>, "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, November 11, 2011, 7:44 PM Here are mines Sir same Place On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice colour shades in a lax inflorescence. Beautiful. > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Desmodium laxiflorum DC. in Ann.Sci.Nat.Paris ser. 1.4 : 100. Jan. 1825. >> Syn: Desmodium difusum DC. >> Small shrub with pubescent young branches; leaves trifoliate on up to 8 cm >> long petiole, terminal leaflet up to 15 cm long, lateral leaflets smaller, >> elliptic to broadly lanceolate; flowers white or pinkish with darker keel, >> 6-8 mm long, in lax erect raceme; pod 3-5 cm long, 6-10 jointed, both >> sutures constricted, pubescent. >> Photographed near Dakpathar along Chakrata road. >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> > > > > -- > Dr Satish Phadke > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964

