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Botanical Name
Cajanus platycarpus - (Benth.) Maesen
Family
Papilionaceae
Common Name
Wild Kulthi
Habit
Herb
Synonym
Alylosia platycarpa Benth.
Habitat
Moist places
Color Of Flower
Pale yellow
Key Characters
Flowers reddish purple, solitary.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Polypetalae
 
Series :
Calyciflorae
 
Order :
Rosales
Plant Description

Trailing herb, branches densely clothed with brown, short, spreading hairs; leaves pinnately 3 foliolate, stipulate, long petiolate; leaflets orbicular, acute or acuminate, membranous, finely pilose on both surfaces; flowers solitary, axillary or in 2-flowered raceme; calyx pilose, teeth long, setaceous; corolla exserted, standard orbicular, wings obliquely ovate, keel not beaked, pale yellow; stamens 9+1; ovary sessile, 3 or more ovuled, style incurved, glabrous, stigma simple; pods 4-6 seeded, linear-oblong, flattened, mucronate, pubescent with transverse depressions between seeds.

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