Desmodium intortum

西班牙三葉草

naturalized

Desmodium intortum (DC.) Urb.

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

數位照片

分布位置

相關資訊

Urb., Symbolae Antillarum 8: 292. 1920. (Symb. Antill.)

Ohashi et al., Sci. Rep. Tohoku Univ. ser. 4 (Biol.) 39: 62. 1985.

Desmodium nantoensis Liu & Lu

Liu & Lu, Quarterly journal of Chinese forestry 12(4): 82. photo 7. 1979. (Quart. J. Chin. For.)

Wu, Yang, Teng, Chang, Yang and Hsieh, Taiwania 55(2): 150. 2010.
Lu, Ou & Lu, Illustrations of Trees of Taiwan 2: 71. 1998. (Ill. Tr. Taiwan)
Yeh-Ching Liu, Fu-Yuan Lu & Chern-Hsiung Ou, Trees of Taiwan revised . 1994. (Tr. Taiwan rev. ed.)

herb

A trailing herb, up to 70 cm high; stem tetrets, striats green or purple, both straight and uncinate hairy.
Leaves trifoliolate; stipules narrowly ovate, hairy, caducous; petioles 3–4 cm long, hairy; leaflets elliptic, 4–6 cm long, 2.5–3.5 cm wide, the apex acute, the base cuneate, the margin entire both surfaces hairy.
Flowers pseudoracemose, terminale or axile, 6 cm long, the bracts large, enclosed the flowers 1 cm long; calyx 5, unequal divided, corolla yellow, pink, white; stamens 10, diadelphous, dimorphic; pistil with multicellular hairs dense on vary; stigma capitate;
Pods hispid. more than 5-segment constricted on both sutures, 2–3 cm long, 2 mm wide; seeds lunate, with long hilum.(seed長寬=2:1)