**2. Morphology**

**Stem:** Suffruticose undershrubs which is 1–1.9 m tall stout stem, hooked hairs.

*Benefaction of Medicinal Plant* Uraria picta *DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97731*

**Leaves:** Alternate, compound, unipinnate, imperipinnate, 15–30 cm long approximately.

**Leaflate:** Subcoriaeous, 6–20 x1–4 cm rounded at base acute green blotched with white and glabrous above minutely pubescent beneath, entire margin.

**Stipels:** Subulate, 4.5 mm long lower leaves often 1–3 foliolate sometime 5–9 foliolate leaflet, sub orbibicular or oblong.

**Flowers**: Flowers in close fascicles along the rachis of spicate, cyllendric racemes 10–30 cm long curving upwards with ages pubescent. Standard 5–6 mm long pink or purple.

**Pods**: Pods glabrous 4–6 jointed joints smooth, polished.

**Seeds**: Seeds ovate, 2 mm long light brown in color.

**Roots:** Stout, nodulated, branched.

**Synonyms.**

There are various synonyms of *U. picta* that are *D. picta* Roxb., *Hedysarum pictum* Jacq., *U. aphrodisiaca* Welw., *U. leucantha* Span., *U. linearis* Hassk.
