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Description of the drug: Stems cylindrical, up to 1 m long, densely covered with yellow spreading pubescens; texture slightly fragile, fracture medullated in the centre. Leaves alternate, leaflets 1–3, rounded or oblong, 2–4 cm in diameter; retuse at the apex, cordate or obtusely rounded at the base, margin entire; the upper surface yellowish-green or grayish-green, glabrous, the lower surface densely covered with grayish-white tomenta, lateral veins pinnate; petiole 1–2 cm long; stipules 2, lanceolate, about 8 mm long. Odour, slightly aromatic; taste, slightly sweet.
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Wagner, H., Bauer, R., Melchart, D., Xiao, PG., Staudinger, A. (2015). Herba Desmodii styracifolii – Guangjinqiancao . In: Wagner, H., Bauer, R., Melchart, D., Xiao, PG., Staudinger, A. (eds) Chromatographic Fingerprint Analysis of Herbal Medicines Volume III. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06047-7_14
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