| Bushy Rattlepod |
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| File size | 243884 |
| Original date | 11/25/17 2:10 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Crotalaria grahamiana Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Bushy Rattlepod is a stout subshrub, up to 1 m tall,
with stems round, hairy. Leaves are 5-8-foliolate; leaflets to 7 x 2
cm, digitate, inverted-lanceshaped, blunt, hairless above; leaf-stalk
up to 10 cm long. Yellow flowers are borne in racemes up to 30 cm long,
at branch-ends; bracts 18 x 2 mm, linear-lanceshaped, hairy. Flowers
are many, densely packed. Calyx 1.2 cm long, sepals equal, ovate,
pointed, hairless; standard 2.5 x 2 mm, obovate, hairless; wings 20 x 8
mm, verrucose; keel densely hairy along the margins. Pods are 6 x 1.8
cm, hairless. Bushy Rattlepod is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
Flowering: January-March.
| Identification credit: C.T. Ouseph | Photographed in Munnar, Kerala. |
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