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desmodium
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n. Any member of the genus (taxlink Desmodium genus noshow=1) of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, containing mostly inconspicuous legumes but some with bright or large flowers.
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Desmodium is a genus in the flowering plant family Fabaceae , sometimes called tick-trefoil , tick clover , hitch hikers or beggar lice . There are dozens of species and the delimitation of the genus has shifted much over time. These are mostly inconspicuous ...
Usage examples of desmodium.
Thus the average length of the pulvinus in the large terminal leaflets of Desmodium is 3 mm.
In this small reduction in length of the pulvinus of the rudimentary leaflets of Desmodium, we apparently have the proximate cause of their great and rapid circumnutating movement, in contrast with that of the almost rudimentary leaflets of the Mimosa.
The rapid gyrations of the little lateral leaflets of Desmodium belong to the same class of movements, somewhat exaggerated in rapidity and amplitude.
This was plainly seen to be the case with the large terminal leaflets of Desmodium, Erythrina and Amphicarpaea, and is probably common to all leaflets provided with a pulvinus.
Delphinium nudicaule, mode of breaking through the ground, 80 --, confluent petioles of two cotyledons, 553 Desmodium gyrans, movement of leaflets, 257, n.