Fabaceae for ID

[Anurag Sharma]

Is this Desmodium sp. ?
Bangalore, 15th June

[girish kumar ellezhuthil]

could it be Indigofera sp.?...

[Anurag Sharma]

Some more photos to help with the ID

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[Santhan P]

Tephrosia villosa (L.) Pers., frequent weed in open lands, 

On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 10:28:19 PM UTC+5:30, Anurag Sharma wrote:

[Anurag Sharma]

Sorry, Santhan sir, but the species T. villosa does not match according to this description-
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BOTANIC DESCRIPTION

Tephrosia villosa is an annual or perennial bushy herb, 0.3-1.3 m tall.

Stem white tomentose.

Leaves imparipinnately compound with 7-19 leaflets, up to 10 cm long;

stipules 2-5 mm long; leaflets obovate to elliptical, up to 21 mm x 9 mm,

hairy on both sides, each side with 4-8 pairs of distinct veins. Stipules

tomentose, caducous and lanceolate.

Flowers in a terminal or upper axillary pseudoraceme 8-22 cm long;

pedicel with densely matted hairs, 2-4 mm long; calyx densely matted-

hairy, tube about 2 mm long, lobes long-acuminate, to 9 mm long;

standard transversely elliptical to broadly ovate, up to 7 mm x 10 mm,

dorsally with dense brown hairs. Style glabrous, up to 3-5 mm long, bent

sharply upward at base, twisted, penicillate.

Pod strongly curved, up to 4 cm x 6 mm, densely silvery or brown-

tomentose, hairs to 2 mm long, 4-10-seeded.

Seed 12-16, rectangular, black, smooth, with short hard excrescences, up

to 4.5 mm x 2.5-2.75 mm. ''

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[Vijayasankar]

I think Santhan ji is right. It looks like Tephrosia villosa to me, too.

 

Regards 

Vijayasankar

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Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
National Center for Natural Products Research
University of Mississippi

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[Anurag Sharma]

Thank you sir.

Santhan sir, my apologies, your id was correct.

Thank you all.