Family: Fabaceae

Common Name: खाजरीकुइली

Etymology - Genus: From the Brazilian name for these vines; the pods of which often bare irritating hairs

Etymology - Species: itching

Ecosystem: Annual

Origin: Native

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Description: Seasonal plant, twiner. Young branches are rough, so as to attach itself to any available support.Trifoliate leaf with two filiform stipules and long grooved petiole.Terminal leaflet - rhombic, two lateral leaflets asymmetric, with oblique base. Presence of stipels (secondary stipules) on rachis.Dark violet flowers are born in a raceme.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.Characteristic shaped, hairy pods. Hair can penetrate skin of animal and can cause painful itching.Pos contain 4-5 small size seeds.

Root type: Adventitious

Stem Appearance: Twiner

Stem Cross Section: Circular

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Root-Stem-Bark Description: Seasonal plant, twiner. Young branches are rough, so as to attach itself to any available support.

Leaf - Characters

Attachment: Petiolate

Stipules:

Leaf Type: Trifoliolate

Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral

Leaf Description: Trifoliate leaf with two filiform stipules and long grooved petiole.

Leaflet - Characters

Lamina: Rhombic

Lamina Bases: Obtuse

Lamina Margins: Entire

Lamina Apices: Acute

Lamina Texture: Glabrous

Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate

Leaflet Description: Terminal leaflet - rhombic, two lateral leaflets asymmetric, with oblique base. Presence of stipels (secondary stipules) on rachis.

Fruit type: Legume

Fruit type Description: Characteristic shaped, hairy pods. Hair can penetrate skin of animal and can cause painful itching.

Seed Type: Dicotyledon

Germination type: Epigeal

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Seed Description: Pos contain 4-5 small size seeds.