| Eyelashes Shell Beans |
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| File size | 163505 |
| Original date | 10/6/08 11:49 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
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| Focal length | 6.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-P52 |
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Botanical name: Geissaspis cristata Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Zornia disperma
Synonyms: Zornia disperma
Eyelashes Shell Beans is a much branched, diffuse herb with angular stems. Leaves are compound, with the spine 5-7 mm long, bristle-tipped. Leaflets
are just 2 pairs, closely arranged, 5-8 long, 4-5 mm broad, obovate in
shape, entire or minutely bristly-serrate, tip blunt or with a tiny point.
Flowers are borne in racemes in leaf axils. Bracts are circular, arranged
in pairs, fringed with long hairs looking like eye-lashes, encircling the
flowers. Sepals cup is deeply 2-lipped - upper one entire, lower one
minutely 3-toothed. Petals are 5, free, clawed, Keel is a little longer
than the standard petal. Pods are 5 x 3 mm, usually 1-jointed,
long-beaked. Eyelashes Shell Beans is native to India, Nepal and SE Asia. Flowering: September-October.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
| Photographed en route to Khandala, Maharashtra. |