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Bludru tick-trefoil (Hylodesmum repandum)

Bludru tick-trefoil (Hylodesmum repandum) is a species of animal 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.

Dlium Bludru tick-trefoil (Hylodesmum repandum)


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.





Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Desmodieae
Subtribe: Desmodiinae
Genus: Hylodesmum
Species: Hylodesmum repandum

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