Desmodium heterocarpon is a much larger shrub with leaflets longer than 3 cm and flowers in a terminal or axillary up to 7 cm long raceme.
http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Asian%20Tick%20Trefoil.html https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/Desmodium$20heterocarpon/indiantreepix/8Vmsq1GXDqU/_BQ63UGGsFUJ%5B1-25%5D https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/Desmodium$20heterocarpon/indiantreepix/8Vmsq1GXDqU/_BQ63UGGsFUJ%5B1-25%5D This one was a much smaller plant, leaflets barely 1 cm or less long and flowers in few-flowered raceme. -- 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 4:16 AM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > A reply: > "It looks me like Desmodium heterocarpon. > Krishan Lal" > > On 9 August 2012 18:00, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >> Date: 11 November 2011 09:58 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:93665] Fabaceae-Faboideae (Papilionaceae) Week: >> Desmodium microphyllum????? from Assan barrage Dakpathar >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> This small herb photographed along Assan barrage Dakpathar in September, >> appears to be Desmodium microphyllum with rounded leaflet apex. Kindly give >> your opinion >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >> them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1900 members & >> 1,23,300 messages on 31/7/12) or Efloraofindia website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >> of more than 7000 species). >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> >> > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1900 members & > 1,23,300 messages on 31/7/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7000 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > --
