Family: Fabaceae

Common Name: ***

Etymology - Genus: From the Greek aeschyn (ugly or causing shame); refers to the leaves closing up

Etymology - Species: Of or from America

Ecosystem: Annual

Origin: Foreign

Location: Taljai Hill

Description: Small size annual shrub with hair all over stem.Very delicate unipinnately compound leaf.Leaflets are sensitive and close when touched.Flowers are pinkish white.Flower with Papilionaceous corolla with standard, wings and keel (two front petals, united to form a boat-shaped structure). Diadelphous stamen - 9 stamens together in a bundle and one stamen free.Pots and flat, curved, deeply indented with each case holding single seed.Should not be planed in Indian subcontinent.

Root type: Adventitious

Stem Appearance: Herb

Stem Cross Section: Circular

Stem Texture:

Root-Stem-Bark Description: Small size annual shrub with hair all over stem.

Leaf - Characters

Attachment: Petiolate

Stipules:

Leaf Type: Unipinnate-Paripinnate

Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral

Leaf Description: Very delicate unipinnately compound leaf.

Leaflet - Characters

Lamina: Oblong

Lamina Bases: Round

Lamina Margins: Entire

Lamina Apices: Acute

Lamina Texture: Pubescent

Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate

Leaflet Description: Leaflets are sensitive and close when touched.

Fruit type: Legume

Fruit type Description: Pots and flat, curved, deeply indented with each case holding single seed.

Seed Type: Dicotyledon

Germination type: Epigeal

Dispersion Method: -

Preprocessing for germination: -

Germination time: -

Seed shelf life: -

Germination %: -

Seed Description: Should not be planed in Indian subcontinent.