Codariocalyx motorius
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Desmodium gyrans, DC. Telegraph Plant. Undershrub, 2-4 ft. high, with 3 oblong or elliptic lfts., the small lateral ones (which are almost linear) moving in various directions when the temperature is congenial, and especially in the sunshine: fls. purple or violet, in racemes and terminal racemose panicles. Ceylon to the Himalayas and the Philippines.—Grown occasionally as a curiosity, particularly in botanical collections. See Darwin's "Power of Movement in Plants," and various botanical treatises, for fuller accounts. L. H. B. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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