Alysicarpus vaginalis (L.) DC.

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Alysicarpus vaginalis (L.) DC.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Decumbent or trailing herb, many-branched from a taprooted base; branches to 50 cm long. Leaf blades 0.5-4 x 0.4-1.3 cm, rounded to lanceolate, chartaceous, glabrous or puberulent, the apex obtuse to rounded, seldom mucronulate, the base rounded to subcordate, the margins entire; stipules lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, straw-colored, persistent. Flowers bisexual; calyx obconical, 4-5 mm long, puberulent; corolla pink, the standard widely obovate, yellowish at base, to 1 cm long, the wings as long as the keel. Legume 1-2 cm long, linear, cylindrical, 3-8 articulate, puberulent, the articulations cylindrical, wrinkled, 1-seeded. Seeds 1 mm long, oblong to rounded.

  • Discussion

    Hedysarum nummularifolium L., Sp. PL, ed. 2, 1051. 1763. Alysicarpus nummularifolius (L.) D C , Prodr. 2: 353. 1825

  • Distribution

    Common roadside weed of humid areas. Susannaberg (A4157). Also on St. Croix, St. Thomas, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda; native to tropical Asia, now weedy throughout the tropics.

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