Morphological characteristics of Stylosanthes

Annual small herb, 5 ~ 13 cm high. All leaves are basal, with very short stalks, oval, ovate to obovate, 5 ~ 8 mm long, the top is blunt or round, entire, glabrous, and the leaf veins are not obvious. The stem is 1 ~ 3 branches, leafless, unbranched, or bifurcated, with sparsely short glandular hairs on the upper part. The inflorescence is a long sparse spike. Flowers small, sessile; Bracts ovate, less than 1 mm long; Calyx tube (ovary) is long and narrow, sparsely glandular hairy, with small lobes. In front, 2 lobes are united into a shallow 2-lobed lobe at the top, 1.8 mm long, and the other 3 are strip-shaped, 1.2 mm long; The Corolla is white, about 2 mm long, the tube is short, one of the front lobes is very small, oval, folded back into a lip, the other four develop backward, the last two are long, the top is 2-lobed, and there are appendages at the base; Pistil column 3.5 mm long, protruding; Ovary 2-loculed. Capsule slender columnar, ca. 8 mm long

Distribution of Stylosanthes

Produced along the coast of Guangdong. Sri Lanka and Queensland in northeast Australia also have. Born in wet grassland by hills and streams