Common in open areas, especially in inhabited islands The plant is used as a long and short- term pasture and ground cover in orchards. It is also useful as green manure. .P /OAF
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The plant is used as a long and short- term pasture and ground cover in orchards. It is also useful as green manure. .P /OAF
Sub-erect perennial herbs, stem highly branched. Leaves trifoliolate, × leaflets 0.5-4.5 2 cm, elliptic to lanceolate, acute at both ends, villous below, nerves prominent. Inflorescence a condensed spike, flowers yellow to orange with black or red stripes. Calyx lobes 2-4 mm long, hairy. Petals yellow, 4-6 mm long. Stamens × monadelphous. Pod one-seeded, 2-3 1.5- 2.5 mm; seed small, pale brown or purple in colour.
native range
South America
distribution
Widespread in the tropics and subtropics ) Sw.
english names
Brazilian stylo · Brazilian lucerne stylo
flowering fruiting
July - January
occurrence maldives
Common in open areas, especially in inhabited islands