| Podocarp Demodium |
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Botanical name: Hylodesmum podocarpum Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Desmodium podocarpum, Hedysarum podocarpum
Synonyms: Desmodium podocarpum, Hedysarum podocarpum
Podocarp Demodium is an erect herb, 50-110 cm tall.
Flowers are purplish red, about 4 mm; standard broadly obovate; wings
narrowly elliptic; keel similar to wings, not clawed. Ovary stipitate.
Flower-stalks are 2-4 mm, elongated to 5-6 mm at fruiting. Calyx is
about 2 mm; sepals shorter than tube. Flowers are borne in racemes or
panicles, at branch-ends or in leaf-axils, 20-30 cm, elongated to 40 cm
at fruiting, often 2-flowered at each node. Stem and leaf-stalk are
sparsely velvet-hairy or hairless. Leaves are 3-foliolate; leaf-stalk
2-12 cm; last leaflet blade variable in shape and size, broadly ovate,
ovate, or rhombic to narrowly lanceshaped. Pod is about 1.6 cm, often
2-jointed. Podocarp Demodium is found in Himalaya to Temp. E. Asia and
Philippines, at altitudes of 100-2100 m.
Medicinal uses:
The whole plant including the
root bark is used medicinally for reducing fever and curing malaria.
Medicinal uses:
The whole plant including the
root bark is used medicinally for reducing fever and curing malaria.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh. |
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