Three-Leaf Indigo is a much branched, diffusing herb,
about 30-60 cm long, young branches velvet-hairy, later becoming
becoming hairless. Leaf are trifoliolate, leaf-stalk about 6-13 mm
long; leaflets about 9-26 mm long, about 6-10 mm broad,
inverted-lanceshaped, blunt, with a short sharp point, velvet-hairy on
both sides, more densely hairy beneath as well as glandular dotted;
stipules small, bristly. Flowers are borne in a stalkless raceme,
usually shorter than the leaf. Flower-stalks are very short. Calyx
about 3-3.5 mm long, velvet-hairy externally, teeth lanceshaped. Flower
are red or dark pink. Vexillum about 4.5 mm long. Fruits are deflexed,
about 1-2 cm long, straight, somewhat 4 angled, with 4 narrow wings,
one on each side of the suture, sparsely velvet-hairy, 6-8-seeded.
Three-Leaf Indigo is found in Kashmir; Bangla Desh; India; Nepal;
Ceylon; Burma; Indochina; Indonesia; Philippines, New Guinea; China;
Australia. Flowering: July-November.
Identification credit: S. Kasim, Rakesh Singh
Photographed in Satara, Maharashtra & Tamil Nadu.
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