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Desmodium brachypodum A.Gray
Large Tick Trefoil
This plant, with white flowers, was growing inside Kulkani Crater in the Undara Volcanic National Park.

  Desmodium brachypodum
Desmodium brachypodum
 
  Description:Flowers Description:Leaflets
  Location:Kulkani Crater, Undara Volcanic National Park, Mt Surprise, North Queensland Location:Kulkani Crater, Undara Volcanic National Park, Mt Surprise, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:18˚13.3110S, 144°40.1106E GPS coordinates:18˚13.3110S, 144°40.1106E
Date of photo:22 January 2017 Date of photo:22 January 2017
  Field No.:5965 Field No.:5965
     
  Desmodium brachypodum Desmodium brachypodum
 
  Description:Pods Description:Flowers and pods
  Location:Kulkani Crater, Undara Volcanic National Park, Mt Surprise, North Queensland Location:Kulkani Crater, Undara Volcanic National Park, Mt Surprise, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:18˚13.3110S, 144°40.1106E GPS coordinates:18˚13.3110S, 144°40.1106E
  Date of photo:22 January 2017 Date of photo:22 January 2017
  Field No.:5965 Field No.:5965
     
  Desmodium brachypodum Desmodium brachypodum
 
  Description:Flowers and pods Description:Plant in habitat
  Location:Kulkani Crater, Undara Volcanic National Park, Mt Surprise, North Queensland Location:Kulkani Crater, Undara Volcanic National Park, Mt Surprise, North Queensland
  GPS coordinates:18˚13.3110S, 144°40.1106E GPS coordinates:18˚13.3110S, 144°40.1106E
  Date of photo:22 January 2017 Date of photo:22 January 2017
  Field No.:5965 Field No.:5965
     
   

References (accessed 11 April 2019):

Plant identified by Tony Bean of the Queensland Herbarium

Pedley, L.
 (1999)
, Desmodium Desv. (Fabaceae) and related genera in Australia: a taxonomic revision. Austrobaileya 5(2):233


Ohashi, H. & Ohashi, K. (2018), Grona, a genus separated from Desmodium (Leguminosae Tribe Desmodieae. Journal of Japanese Botany 93(2):181

http://eflora.nt.gov.au/factsheet?genus=Desmodium&species=brachypodum

 

 

 

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Desmodium brachypodum