Surajit ji, ... am making an attempt to analyze ... may not be correct. 1. The leaves in picture at http://www.virboga.de/Desmodium_microphyllum.htm do not resemble to those in your plant; also cannot make out whether the leaves at virboga are trifoliate. 2. The plant's habit in http://89sky.net/vbb/showthread.php?p=41778 does not look like that of your plant. Your plant seems more of a ground cover; the plant in referred link seems to have relatively, loosely spaced nodes. 3. and 4. The eflora links give descriptions of the leaves - was wanting to find whether there is any mention of the emarginate leaflets - clearly seen in your photos (the notches can be seen of those leaflets which are wholly facing) ... the leaflets in the pictures of first two links do not show emarginate leaflets; the 89sky.net picture has mucronate leaflets.
Your plant does not seem to matching to any of those in the listed links. I would believe your plant to be *Desmodium triflorum. *Let us wait for comments.* *Regards. Dinesh* * On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:26 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > Sir, > > This plant is growing just in front of our main gate, on brick & mortar! > Well, years of accumulation of dust, mud, debris etc made this brick & > mortar another cradle of life! And a part of this space turned itself into > a garden, dominated by this tiny creeping herb. > > An > illustration<http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=53890&flora_id=5>found > in FoP tells me that this might be > *Desmodium triflorum* (L.) DC., but the > description<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200012113>tells > me that my flowers are much smaller. Searched the group posts, found > - https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/o0h7K6Tc2_k/discussion. > > On the other hand, images and description of leaves available in the sites > below prevent me to ID this as *D. microphyllum* (Thunb.) DC. - > > 1. http://www.virboga.de/Desmodium_microphyllum.htm > 2. http://89sky.net/vbb/showthread.php?p=41778 > 3. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200012104 > 4. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200012104 > > So, this remains a riddle to me. Attaching larger recorded yesterday at my > place, Nalikul, Hooghly. > > Thank you & Regards, > > surajit > > > > -- > > > > --
