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(Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl.Per.: June-September.
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Type:
Holotype: In Nepaulia (Wallich).
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Distribution:
Distribution: Pakistan, Kashmir, India (Punjab, Kumaon, Bombay, Madras), Nepal, Bhutan.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Ohashi (in Hara, Fl.E. Himal. 2:278.1971) has shown that Desmodium elegans DC. and Desmodium tilii folinm (D. Don) G.Don are conspecific.According to his treatment, our plants belong to subsp. elegans var. elegans According to Parker (l.c.) ‘Desmodium nutans is easily recognised in the field by its long lax drooping panicles and dark violet purple flowers, but in the herbarium it is scarcely distinguishable from some forms of Desmodium tiliifolium (Desmodium elegans DC.) with which any botanist who did not know the living plant would probably unite it’. Unfortunately none of the specimens are accompanied by adequate field notes to make it possible to keep the two taxa separate. Hence I am obliged to unite the two.
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Map Location:
A-7 Sind valley, Kangan, 5500 ft., Ludlow & Sherriff 7874(BM); B-5 Kurram valley, near Shalizan and Shendtoi, 7000 ft., J.E.T. Aitchison 810 (K); Kurram valley Aina mela, 15.8.1894, Harsukh ex Herb. J.F. Duthie 15307; B-6 8 miles from Dir, on way to Darosh, Sultanul Abedin 7885 (KUH); Dir, Gujar, E.Nasir & M.A. Siddigi 1278 (RAW); B-7 Kawai, on way to Naran, c. 5000 ft., clay loam, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 8756 (KUH); along roadside on way to Baragali, Saida Qureshi 232 (KUH); Swat, Khamaba, between Jahanabad and Jabba, sandy clay loam, gravel mixed, M.Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4785 (KUH); Swat, F. Grohmann 6300 (RAW); Hazara, 1 mile from Kawai on way to Shogran, c. 5500 ft, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 8778 (KUH) ; Swat, near Jabba, Saddruddin s.n. 3.9.1966 (KUH); Kaghan: near P.W.D. Rest House, rocky hills, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 8872 (KUH); Swat State, mountain west of Swat River above Bahrein, 5000-5500 ft., R.J.Rodin 5589 (K); Hazara, Deoli, 25.8.1899, J.F. Duthie (K); Hazara, Kewari, Kagan road, M.Qaiser & A.Ghafoor 5203 (KUH); 8 miles from Mahandri on way to Kaghan, M.Qaiser & A.Ghafoor 5244 (KUH); Distt. Muzaffarabad, Khudri Camp, Leepa valley, 6000 ft, Gatacre 17123 (BM); Kashmir, Ruttun Pir, 7000 ft., C.B. Clarke 28300A (K); 28300 B (BM); Marhama, 8000 ft., G.L.C. Fuller (K); Wangat valley, 7000 ft., 12.8.1940, P.W. Pinfold (BM); B-8 Kashmir, Sind valley, R.R. Stewart 9684 (RAW); Poosiana, south face of Pir Panjal Pass, 7000 ft., rocky hill slopes, F. Ludlow & G. Sherriff 33 (BM); C-5 Waziristan, Razmak, c. 6000-7000 ft., L.V. Lester-Garland (K); C-7 Rawalpindi, August and September 1871, J.E.T. Aitchison 382 (K); Murree, c. 6000 ft., J.R. Drummond 1754 (K); Murree, Pinacle hill, 6800 ft., T.A. Sprague 133 (K); Murree, 1914, E.M. Saunders (K); Murree hills, 7500 ft, cliff sides, Mrs. Prescott-Decie (BM); Upper Topa, Murree hills, J.H. Barbour (BM); Jhelum valley Road, R.R. & I.D.Stewart 5090A (RAW); Murree on way to Kashmir point, Saida Qureshi 249 (KUH) ; Murree Hills, Saida Qureshi s.n. 29.8.66 (KUH); Jhelum valley, near Rampur, Kanrali forest, 6500 ft., Ludlow & Sherriff 7716 (BM); C-8 Chanab valley, Kishtwar Dist., Sarshu, 6000 ft., Ludlow & Sherriff 9118 (BM).
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Shrub, 1.8-2.5 m tall, branches densely pubescent. Leaf trifoliolate, petiole 3.7-7.5 cm long, leaflets up to 7.5 cm long, orbicular, ovate to obovate, obtuse to acuminate, glabrous to pubescent on both the sides, hairs silky on the lower side, petiolule of lateral leaflets 2-5 mm; stipules c. 5 mm long. Inflorescence a panicle, up to 45 cm long. Bracts 2.5 cm long, bracteoles linear, small. Calyx 2.5 mm long, villous, teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla 10-12.5 mm long, palelilac to dark purple. Fruit sessile, sometimes appearing stipitate by the abortion of basal ovules, 3.0-7.5 cm long, 6-6.5 mm broad, upper suture almost straight, lower indented between the seeds, articles 6-7.5 mm long, pubescent.
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