"Desmodium heterocarpon, Asian Tick Trefoil, is a nearly erect sub shrub usually 0.5-1.5 m tall. Stems usually many-branched, appressed pubescent in upper part. Leaves 1-3-foliolate, leaflets usually elliptic, terminal one 2.5-6 cm long. Flowers numerous in racemose inflorescence 5-10 cm long. Flowers pink to purplish red, pea like. Pods narrowly oblong, 4-8-jointed, 1-2.8 cm long, densely hooked pubescent,2.5-3 mm long, 2-3 mm wide.