Many thanks Satish Sir and Dinesh Sir for good words. Yes u r right this is having very large leaves and thus easy to identify among other Desmodium species.
Regards prasad On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Many thanks Prasad ji, for showing this *Desmodium*. > Quite a large leaf, and a large shrub too. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Good one Prasad. So from your pictures this Desmodium is having a large >> leaf as compared to many others posted earlier. >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:17 PM, prasad dash <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Dear members sending the photograph of *Desmodium velutinum* taken from >>> Ranpur >>> >>> >>> Name of the species: *Desmodium velutinum* >>> >>> Family: Papilionaceae >>> >>> Place of collection: Ranpur, Nayagarh, Orissa >>> >>> Habit: Shrub up to 3 m tall. >>> >>> Habitat: Wild, dry deciduous to moist deciduous forests and also in open >>> forests. >>> >>> Altitude: 200 to 400 m above msl >>> >>> Description: Leaves alternate, simple, penni-veined, hairy. Flowers ca. >>> 8 mm long, purple, placed in long racemes. Fruits long, yellow, beaded pods. >>> >>> * * >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> >>> Prasad >>> >>> -- >>> Prasad Kumar Dash >>> Ecologist, Orissa, India >>> email: [email protected] >>> ph. 09437444241 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr Satish Phadke >> > > -- Prasad Kumar Dash Ecologist, Orissa, India email: [email protected] ph. 09437444241
