Family:
Fabaceae
Synonym: Calopogonium brachycarpum (Benth.)
Benth. ex Hemsl.
Habit:
Climber
Habitat:
Forest plantations, also in the plains
Flowering
& Fruiting: August-February
Distribution:
Tropical Asia, southern India
Key
identification features: Slender creeping and climbing herbs,
coarsely brown-tawny pubescent. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate; Flowers bluish,
in axillary racemes; bracts and bracteoles small caducuos; Pods coarsely
pubescent, compressed-convex, slightly constricted between the seeds; seeds
5-7.
Uses: Mainly used as cover crop, alone or in mixture with other legumes, especially in rubber, oil palm or in young forest plantations
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