Sweet clover

Melilotus indicus

Description: Erect annual to 60 cm high, glabrous to sparsely hairy.

Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate-oblong or obovate-cuneate, 5–30 mm long, 2–13 mm wide, apex rounded and often emarginate, margins toothed; petiole 15–40 mm long; stipules ± lanceolate, mostly 5–10 mm long, dilated and toothed towards base.

Racemes 10–60-flowered, longer than subtending leaf, at first dense and then elongating in pod; peduncle 1–3 cm long. Calyx c. 2 mm long. Corolla 2–3 mm long, yellow.

Pod ± globose, 2–3 mm long, glabrous, reticulate-wrinkled, green to brownish; seed usually 1.

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