[efloraofindia:34953] Flora of Manipur: Desmodium gyrans

[R. Vijayasankar]

Desmodium gyrans (= D.motorium), the Indian Telegraphic Plant, found wild in Manipur forests.

With regards

R. Vijayasankar

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[tanay bose]

Darwin called the plant Hedysarum; modern botanists call it either Desmodium gyrans, or more correctly these days, Codariocalyx motorius. Its common name is Dancing Grass or Telegraph Plant or Semaphore Plant -- after the leaf movements, which resemble semaphore signals.

Tanay

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[R. Vijayasankar]

thanks Tanay for the info. Codariocalyx is again an old name i think.

there are video files in the net wherein you can watch the movement of leaflets.

With regards

R. Vijayasankar

[tanay bose]

I will , thanks for informing me Vijaya Ji

tanay