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*''Desmodium purpureum'' (Miller) Fawcett & Rendle.

*Annual or perennial herb or shrub up to 1.5 m tall. Branches striate, hairs fine and dense. *Leaves trifoliolate; petiole longer than leaflet, stipules lanceolate, 6-15 mm long; leaflets ovate to elliptical, 2-10(-14) cm × 1-7 cm. *Inflorescence a lax, simple or branched panicle of racemes, 15-30 cm long; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 6-8 mm long, with long hairs along the margin; flowers 2-3 together; pedicel filiform, 1-2 cm long; calyx .*Calyx 2-3 mm long; petals blue to purple, 4-5 mm long. *Pod 1-3 cm × 3 mm, with 3-6 ovate-rounded joints, each 4-5 mm in diameter.  ''D. tortuosum'' is found in disturbed areas, cultivated fields and grassland, on sandy or calcareous soils in coastal areas, up to 1200 m altitude.

*M.S.M. Sosef & L.J.G. van der Maesen