Silver leaf desmodium

Desmodium uncinatum

In axillary racemes to 30 cm long. Calyx 4-lobed, upper lobe divided into two. Flowers spring and summer.

Prostrate to scrambling herb with stems to several metres long. Leaf stalk 1.5–6 cm long. Seedpod flattened, 1–3 cm long, 0.15–0.3 cm wide, with 3–10 seeds. Seeds pale brown to tan, elliptic, 3–3.5 mm long.