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Grona heterocarpos (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi   (redirected from: Desmodium heterocarpon subsp. ovalifolium (Prain) H.Ohashi)
Family: Fabaceae
[Desmodium buergeri Miq., moreDesmodium heterocarpon (L.) DC., Desmodium heterocarpon subsp. ovalifolium (Prain) H.Ohashi, Desmodium heterocarpon var. buergeri (Miq.) Hosok., Desmodium ovalifolium Wall. ex Ridl., Desmodium polycarpon f. hirsutum Pamp., Hedysarum canum J.F.Gmel., Hedysarum heterocarpon L., Meibomia buergeri (Miq.) Kuntze, Meibomia heterocarpa (L.) Kuntze]
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Japan Flora: Diffuse suffrutescent shrub with procumbent or ascending slender branches, sparsely appressed-pilose while young; stipules lanceolate, 8-12 mm, long, long-acuminate, many-nerved; leaflets rounded to re­tuse, the terminal obovate, 25-3 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, the lateral obovate to oblong, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, pilose while young; racemes 6-8 cm. long, with spreading hairs, the bracts narrowly ovate, caducous; flowers reddish purple, 4-5 mm. long; calyx rather (뇨eply lobed; legumes about 15 mm. long, erect, sessile,the joints 4-5, about 3 mm. long and as wide, flat, with minute uncinate whitish hairs. Sept-Oct. Grassy slopes and roadsides in lowlands.

Hon­shu (centr. distr. and westw.),Shikoku, Kyushu; locally common. Bonins, Korea (Quelpaert Isl.), Ryukyus, For­mosa, China to India and Malaysia. 

var. patulepilosum (Ohwi) Ohwi. Hairs spreading on stems and branches. Honshu (Kii Prov,).

Grona heterocarpos
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