Desmodium gunnii

 

Family:            Fabaceae-Faboideae

Plant:              A scrambling, prostrate or climbing plant with stems up to 40cm long.

Flowers:         Small 4-5mm long, pink or mauve to white pea flowers in terminal racemes up to 16cm long.

Flowering:      Most of year but main flush in spring and summer.

Fruit:               Pods up to 2cm long that easily break into segments. The pods are covered with tiny hooked bristles.

Leaves:       Trifoliate with its leaflets varying from oblong to circular up to 4cm long and up to 2cm wide. They are sparsely hairy and the 3 petioles are all the same length.

Habitat:           In sheltered areas in both wet-and dry-sclerophyll forest.

Features:       Segmented pods with scalloped lower edges.

Name:

Desmodium   From Greek desmodum = a little chain (referring to the form of its pods)

gunnii             After the Tasmanian naturalist Ronald Campbell Gunn

Search Criteria

 

Type	Climber/Scrambler
Flowers	Form	Irregular, Cluster, Pea
	Colour(s)	Pink, Mauve, White
	Petal/Sepal No.	4,5
	Flowering Month	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
		10, 11, 12
Fruit	Type	Pod
	Colour	Green
	Other Features	Hairy
Leaves	Arrangement	Alternate
	Type	Other
	Shape	Spoon, Oval, Round
	Length	Short
	Margins	Entire
	Attachment	Stalked
	Other Features	Hairy
Bark	-
Habitat	Wet sclerophyll forest, Dry sclerophyll forest