Family: Fabaceae
Synonym: Hedysarum bupleurifolium L.
Vernacular name: Nir-murri
Habit: Herb
Habitat: Deciduous, rain, evergreen and
subhumid forests, often found in ponds, water-filled ditches and along canals
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal,
Bangaldesh, Malesia, Myanmar, China, Philippines, Mauritius, Polynesia
Flowering and Fruiting: September-October
Key identification features: It is a perennial herb
with leaflets that are glabrous, linear, or lanceolate. Inflorescence is
racemes with flowers arranged in distant pairs (10-20). are very short. Fruit
is a pod is stalked.
Uses: As a nitrogen-fixing legume,
Alysicarpus bupleurifolius can be grown as a green manure crop to enrich the
soil with nitrogen and organic matter.
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