Desmodium rhynchodesmum (S.F.Blake) Standl.

lax, spreading panicle45, rachises angulate, ridged and grooved, minutely puber-ulent and glandular dotted, and with uncinulate pubescence of pale golden tri-chomes; pedicels regularly borne in pairs, but each 2 not always maturing to-gether, each pair subtended by an ovate acuminate striate primary bract44, minutely puberulent over the abaxial surface and somewhat pilose, the margins ciliate, ca. 3.5 mm long and 2 mm wide; secondary bracts44, each subtending 1 pedicel, rare, linear with a tuft of trichomes at the apex, 0.5-1 mm long, 0.25 mm wide; pedicels minutely puberulent with fine, short, white trichomes and sparsely to abundantly uncinulate puberulent with longer, yellowish (or white) trichomes, 4.5-5 mm long. Flowers with the calyx minutely puberulent throughout and with long stiff tapering trichomes along the whole surface of the central tooth of lower lobe, scattered on the other teeth and on the upper lobe, all teeth ciliate, the central tooth of the lower lobe 3.5-4.5 mm long, the lateral teeth 3-3.5 mm long, the upper bifid lobe 3-3.5 mm long; standard44 obovate, slightly tapered toward the base, 6.5 mm long, 4 mm wide, the wings remotely rectangular in outline, truncate at the apex, slightly auriculate and short unguiculate at the base, 5 mm long, 3 mm wide, the wings scythe shaped, long unguiculate, obtuse at the apex, 5.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide; vexillar stamen fused ca. 1/4 its length, then free from the others. Loment stipitate, 1-2-articulate, the stipe pilose with appressed to spreading or downwardly directed tapering trichomes, 3.5-4.5 mm long; articles saccate, notched at the apex, the shoulders beaked at maturity, the margin ciliate throughout, the surface minutely puberulent, 1.7-2.3 cm long and high; seed reniform, to ca. 4 mm long and 2 mm wide, funicle to ca. 3.5 mm long.