Smithia sensitiva

Botanical Description

Smithia sensitiva is a low-growing, annual plant with slender, many-branched, ascending to decumbent stems 15 - 90cm long[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. , 372 Title Flowers of India Publication Author Website http://www.flowersofindia.net/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A wed site of native Indian plants, plus cultivated and naturalized species. It has good quality photos and terse details on more than 3,000 species and cultivars. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine. It is also of possible use as a green manure crop.[ 853 Title Inventory of Seeds and Plants Imported Vol. 106 Publication Author Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher USDA, Washington. Year 1932 ISBN Description Details of seeds imported for trials by the United States Department of Agriculture in the first quarter of 1931, often detailing the uses of the plant and various other miscellaneous information. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ] Even though it has multiple uses as food and medicine, harvest is not a threat to the species. The plant is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2013)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].