Family: Fabaceae
Synonym: Aeschynomene
bispinosa Jacq., Coronilla aculeata
Willd.
Vernacular
name: Kilannu, Kitamu, Daincha
Habit:
Shrub
Habitat:
Scrub jungle and road sides, also marshy fields in the plains
Key
identification features: Soft prickly shrub
Flowering
& Fruiting: August-March
Distribution:
Pantropical
Key
identification features: An erect, sparsely-branched annual
shrub; stems semi-woody; branches and leaf rachises more or less prickly.
Leaves pinnate; Flowers borne on 3-6 flowered drooping racemes; Fruit(pod)
straight or slightly curved with slightly indented margins, 35-40 seeded.
Uses:
Used as green manure, rice straw, wood and fodder
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