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Bludru tick-trefoil (Hylodesmum repandum)

Dlium Bludru tick-trefoil (Hylodesmum repandum)

Bludru tick-trefoil (Hylodesmum repandum) is a species of plant in the Fabaceae, shrub, erect or fallen stem, 50-150 cm long, cylindrical, green or brown in color, white hair, branches and petioles spread, grows on the forest floor at elevations about 1000-2000 meters.

H. repandum has leaves with three strands with stalks 3-9 cm long; rhombic to ovate, 5-8 cm long, 3.5-6 cm wide, pointed at the base and tip, margins repand, apex acute to immediately acute, hairy surface, a major vein in the middle with several minor veins penetrating.





Inflorescences in panicles and 15-30 cm long. Pedicel 1.5-3 cm with straight or scaly hair. Petals 2.5-3.5 mm and lobes longer than or equal to the tube. Corollas are red or orange-red, broad elliptical, 8-10 mm long, 7-8 mm wide and short paws. Elliptical narrow wing, 7x2 mm.

Legumes are often continuous for 3-4 items, slightly subobovate and broad, 6-3 mm long, 3 mm wide, uncinate densely pubescent. Stipe 5 mm and pedicel 2-4 cm.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Desmodieae
Subtribe: Desmodiinae
Genus: Hylodesmum H.Ohashi & R.R.Mill in Edinburgh J. Bot. 57: 173 (2000)
Species: Hylodesmum repandum (Vahl) H.Ohashi & R.R.Mill in Edinburgh J. Bot. 57: 185 (2000)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Desmodium repandum (Vahl) Poir. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 13: 109 (1819)
Hedysarum repandum Vahl in Symb. Bot. 2: 82 (1791)
Meibomia repanda (Vahl) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 197 (1891)
Podocarpium repandum (Vahl) Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang in Bull. Bot. Lab. N. E. Forest. Inst., Harbin 4: 13 (1979)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Aeschynomene remota Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 4: 452 (1798)
Desmodium abyssinicum DC. in Prodr. 2: 338 (1825)
Desmodium afrum Eckl. & Zeyh. in Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral.: 251 (1836)
Desmodium aparine Chiov. in Racc. Bot.: 32 (1935)
Desmodium remotum (Poir.) Drake in A.Grandidier, Hist. Phys. Madagascar 30: 171 (1902 publ. 1903)
Desmodium scalpe DC. (1825)
Desmodium schimperi Hochst. ex A.Rich. in Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 205 (1848)
Desmodium strangulatum Wight & Arn. in Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 228 (1834)
Desmodium strangulatum var. parvulum Miq. in Fl. Ned. Ind. 1: 255 (1855)
Desmodium trichocaulon Hassk. in Pl. Jav. Rar.: 367 (1848)
Hedysarum abyssinicum Hoffmanns. in Verz. Pfl.-Kult.: 217 (1824)
Hedysarum ignescens Zipp. ex Miq. (1855)
Hedysarum scalpe Comm. ex DC. (1825)
Meibomia scalpe (DC.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 66 (1898)
Papilionopsis stylidioides Steenis in Nova Guinea, Bot. 3: 19 (1960)
Pleurolobus remotus (Poir.) J.St.-Hil. in Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, sér. 2, 3: 192 (1812)

PUBLICATIONS

Lock, J.M. & Ford, C.S. (2004). Legumes of Malesia a Check-List: 1-295. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Pullaiah, T. & Karuppusamy, S. (2020). Flora of the Eastern Ghats 7: 1-474.

Velayos, M. & al. (eds.) (2015). Flora de Guinea Ecuatorial 5: 1-529. Consejo superior de investigaciones científicas, Real jardín botánico, Madrid.

Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 10: 1-642. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

de la Estrella, M., Cabezas, F.J., Aedo, C. & Velayos, M. (2010). The Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Equatorial Guinea (Annobón, Bioko and Río Muni). Folia Geobotanica 45: 1-57.

VERNACULAR NAME

English: Bludru tick-trefoil, Orange tick-trefoil, Orange tick-clover, Hitchhikers, Beggar Lice
Indonesia: Bludru
Java: Bludru, Waliketupa sapi
Lao: Kh'üa s'a~thwa
Madura: Leng-elengan
Sunda: potong kujang

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