✿Fabaceae · Desmodium
Asud / Loose Flowered Desmodium
Desmodium laxiflorum
Undershrub
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Found in India
- Meghalaya, Uttarakhand
- Flowering
- September-April
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Desmodium laxiflorum
- Genus
- Desmodium
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Habitat
- Dry and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India to Formosa, Malesia
- Found in India
- Meghalaya, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-April
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Trifoliate (three leaflets)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Asud itself; the rest are typical of the Fabaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- PurplerecordedPurple or violet
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Legume
Characters marked “recorded” are for Asud itself; the rest are typical of the Fabaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Manipuri
- ꯄꯣꯔꯣꯡꯈꯣꯛ ꯃꯥꯟꯕꯤ Porongkhok Manbi
- Marathi
- आसूड asud, भूतशेवरा bhut-sheura, जंगली गांजा jangli-ganja
- Tamil
- Atotti
- Malayalam
- Orila
- Telugu
- Antunthalu, Cheppa Thatla
- Kannada
- ಒತ್ತೆ ಗಿಡ otte gida
- Konkani
- जंगली गांजा jangli ganja
- Nepali
- कुरो झार kuro jhar
- Sanskrit
- पार्ष्णीपर्णी parsniparn
- Mizo
- Chabetban
About Asud
Loose Flowered Desmodium (Desmodium laxiflorum) is a low shrub in the Fabaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Meghalaya and Uttarakhand. It grows in dry and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains. Flowering and fruiting run from September to April.
Botanical family
Fabaceae
Legume/Bean family
Asud belongs to the Fabaceae family.
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