Good evening Dinesh Ji, Certainly this is not *D. microphyllum*, i copy a line from my post, "....... images and description of leaves available in the sites below prevent me to ID this as *D. microphyllum* (Thunb.) DC. -.... ."
Thank you & Regards, surajit On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > 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=41778does > 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > --
