Cultivated
Subshrub or woody perennial herb ; up to 2 m tall , mostly erect , rarely prostrate or straggling . Stems prostrate to erect or arching , angular , pubescent with longer hairs on the angles . Leaves 1-foliolate ; petiole 0 . 5-2 . 3 cm long ; stipules lanceolate , 7-13 mm long ; leaflet 0 . 4–17 . 5 × 0 . 4–6 cm , round , elliptic , oblong to ovate-lanceolate , rounded to acuminate at the apex , rounded , truncate , or even slightly cordate at the base , puberulous with very short hairs above , almost glabrous , pilose with much longer hairs beneath . Inflorescences borne in racemes at the end of branches , or in leaf axils . Flowers c . 5 mm long , variable in colour , pink , blue , white , mauve or greenish and dark blue ; calyx pale green tinged reddish , finely uncinulate-puberulous and with long hairs on the lobes ; corolla obovate , emarginate . Fruit 8-25 mm long , of 3-7(8) articles , joined by narrow necks and covered with short hooked hairs . Seeds 1 . 6–2 × 1 . 2–1 . 4 × 0 . 5
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Common
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Aeschynomene gangetica (L.) Poir.
Desmodium gangeticum (L.) DC.
Hedysarum gangeticum L.
Hedysarum ochroleucum Moench
Meibomia gangetica (L.) Kuntze
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Sal Leaved Desmodium
Not used traditionally.
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