Meibomia gyrans

Meibomia gyrans
Telegraph plant Telegraph plant (Bot.), A tick trefoil ({Meibomia gyrans} formerly {Desmodium gyrans}), native of the East Indies; it is a leguminous plant whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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