Blackgram

Morphology

  • Urd plants are small shrubs which grow upto a height of about 30 cm and are well branched.
  • The leaves and stems are covered with rough reddish hairs and the plants are dark green in colour due to these hairs.
  • The stem is slightly ridged, covered with brown hairs.
  • The leaves are large trifoliate and are also hairy, generally with a purplish tinge. The colour of leaves is green to dark green. The leaflets are 5-10 cm long, broad, ovate and entire.
  • The infloresence consists of a cluster of 5-6 flowers at a top of a long hairy peduncle. There are 5 sepals and 5 petals. Stamens 9 and 1 style hairy and spirally twisted.
  • The flowers are axillary, recemose, complete, self pollinated and yellow in colour.
  • The pods are 4-6 cm long, slender, covered with small hairs, black or greenish in colour, and they contain 8 to 15 seeds in them.


 

Telangana