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Pakistan | Family List | Papilionaceae | Dumasia

Dumasia villosa DC. in Ann.Sci.Nat. 4:96. 1825. Baker in Hook.f., Fl.Brit.Ind. 2:183.1876; Cooke,Fl.Bomb.Pres. (reprint ed.) 1:385.1958; Verdc. in Milne-Redhead & Polhill,Fl.Trop.E.Afr. (Leguminosae 4) 513.1971.

Twining herb, stem pubescent, hairs spreading. Leaf trifoliolate, petiole 2-6.5 cm long, leaflets 1.3-6.5 cm long, 0.7-5 cm broad, ovate-oblong, subobtuse to slightly emarginate, glabrous to sparsely pilose above, pilose below; petiolule 1-4 mm long; stipule 2-5 mm long. Raceme 2-4 (-15) cm long, peduncle 2-6 cm long. Pedicel 2 mm long; bracts c. 2 mm long; bracteoles 1-2 mm long. Calyx 7-8 mm long, pubescent, mouth obliquely truncate. Vexillum 1.2-1.7 cm long. Fruit 2.5-4 cm long, 8 mm broad, linear, velvety, torulose, 3-4-seeded.

Fl.Per.: August-November.

Holotype: Nepal, Wallich (G).

Distribution: Pakistan; Kashmir; India; Sikkim; Ceylon; Burrna; Indonesia; Tropical Africa.


 

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