| Delicate Himalayan Vetch |
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| File size | 212170 |
| Original date | 3/5/09 3:23 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 12.2mm |
| Exposure time | 1/120s |
| Aperture | 12.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX S6 |
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Botanical name: Vicia tenera Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Delicate Himalayan Vetch is a slender straggling
climber with lilac pea-like flower borne in many-flowered racemes.
Racemes are carried on stalks as long as the racemes, 1-2 inches long,
6-20 flowered, Sepal cup is 2 mm, teeth very unequal, upper triangular.
Flowers are about 1 cm long. Leaves are 5-7.5 cm long, compound.
Leaflets are 12-16, distant, narrow strap-shaped, 1.8-2.5 cm long, 2-3
mm broad, pointed, finely silky below. Stipules are small, deeply
toothed. Pod is oblique, hairless, about 3 cm long, 6-8 seeded.
Delicate Himalayan Vetch is found in W. Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh and
Uttarakhand, at altitudes of 1000-2600 m.
| Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |
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