Ohwia caudata

小槐花

Ohwia caudata (Thunb.) H. Ohashi

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特徵描述

典藏標本

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相關資訊

H. Ohashi, The science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. Fourth Series, Biology 40: 243. 1999. (Sci. Rep. Tohoku Univ. 4. Biol.)

Desmodium laburnifolium (Poir.) DC.

Forbes & Hemsl., The journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany 23: 173. 1887. (J. Linn. Soc., Bot.)
Desmodium caudatum (Thunb.) DC.

Liu & Chuang, Taiwania 8: 73. 1962.

Ciou & Pong, Illustrations of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan 156. 2008. (Illustration of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan)
Hsiao-Ting Wu, Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Dahu Township, Miaoli county. Master thesis. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology . 2007. (Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Dahu Township, Miaoli county.)
Yeh-Ching Liu, Fu-Yuan Lu & Chern-Hsiung Ou, Trees of Taiwan revised . 1994. (Tr. Taiwan rev. ed.)
Yang, A list of plants in Taiwan . 1982. (List Pl. Taiwan)

shrub

A shrub, about 1 m high; branches nearly glabrous.
Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets membranaceous, the terminal one lanceolate, acute at both ends, 7–12 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, the upper surface dark green; veins elevated on both surfaces; the lateral ones smaller; perioles 2–3 cm long, with very thin wings; stipules spinescent, 5–10 mm long.
Flowers in axillary and terminal pseudoracemes or panicles; calyx lobes auminate, hairy; corolla 5–6 mm long, yellow or greenish white.
Pods 5–7 cm long, flattened, 4–6-jointed; joints narrow oblong, 10–13 mm long, 3 mm wide, with brown hooked hairs.

台灣 : Taiwan, always in the wet and semi-shaded thickets, at elevation below 300 m high, mainly in northern part.
世界 : Japan, southern Korea, China, the Ryukyus, Malaysia, the Himalayas to India, Ceylon;