| Armed Milk-Vetch |
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| Original date | 6/21/16 11:39 AM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 49.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 700D |
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Botanical name: Astragalus oplites Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Astragalus cicerifolius, Astragalus zanskarensis subsp. oplites
Synonyms: Astragalus cicerifolius, Astragalus zanskarensis subsp. oplites
Armed Milk-Vetch is a shrublet with yellow flowers and
pinnate leaves, among long spines. Leaves are paripinnately compound,
about 7.0-18.0 cm long; leaflets about 20-40, about 5-11 mm long,
elliptic-oblong or obovate, blunt or flat at tip, often folded
lengthwise along the middle, hairless above, hairy below when young;
stipules lanceshaped, hairy on the margins with several prominent
nerves. Flowers are borne in 2-5-flowered stalked racemes, carried on
flower-cluster-stalks up to 2.6 cm long. Flower-stalks are about 5-6 mm
long, bristly. Flowers are yellow, vexillum about 2.5-2.8 cm long,
hairless. Wing about 2.2-2.3 cm long. Keel about 1.7-1.8 cm long.
Sepal-cup is about 1.2-1.6 cm long, hairy, hairs white or black and
white, teeth about 4-4.5 mm long. Fruits are about 1.7-1.8 cm long,
hairy, about 18-seeded. Armed Milk-Vetch is found in Kashmir, Ladakh,
Western Himalaya, Chinese Turkistan, at altitudes of 3500-4100 m.
Flowering: June-September.
| Identification credit: Saroj Kasaju | Photographed en-route to Changla Pass, Ladakh. |
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