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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Melilotus albus - Medik.
Family
Papilionaceae
Common Name
Khandai, White millet, White Sweet Clover
Habit
Herb
Synonym
Melilotus vulgaris Willd.
Habitat
Wild
Color Of Flower
White
Key Characters
Corolla white; pods 1-2 seeded
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Polypetalae
 
Series :
Calyciflorae
 
Order :
Rosales
Plant Description

Annual herb, erect or decumbent, robust; leaves alternate, 3-foliolate, stipulate; leaflets obovate, oblong, entire or distantly serrulate; flowers sub-pendulous on long, erect racemes; calyx teeth lanceolate, shorter than tube; corolla always white, inodorous, obtuse straight; stamens diadelphous anther uniform filaments not dilated; ovary sessile or subsessile, five ovuled; style filiform, glabrous much incurved; stigma terminal; pods oblong, indehiscent, much exserted, 2-seeded.

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