| Field Snoutbean |
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| File size | 375538 |
| Original date | 1/18/20 9:33 AM |
| Resolution | 1200 x 900 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 1.94mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 2.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Redmi Note 8 |
| Sensor type | Undefined |
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Botanical name: Rhynchosia bracteata Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Rhynchosia arvensis, Atylosia candicans
Synonyms: Rhynchosia arvensis, Atylosia candicans
Field Snoutbean is a twinning herb with slender, woody
branches, densely grey velvet-hairy. Leaf stalks are 2.5-5 cm long,
stiff. Leaves are trifoliate with leaflets rhomboid-round, thick,
leathery, greenish, thinly velvet-hairy above, densely so beneath. The
end leaflet is ovate long-pointed, 7-10 cm long. Flower-cluster-stalks
are equal to or longer than the leaf-stalks. Flower-stalks 3-6 mm long,
bracts lanceshaped, falling off. Sepal cup is 1.2-1.8 cm long, densely
silky, teeth linear-bristly, the lowest longest, 2-4 times as long as
the tube. Flowers are 1.2 cm, standard petal grey-velvety outside.
Pods are oblique, oblong,
firm, 2.5-4 cm long, 1.2 cm broad, 2-seeded. Field Snoutbean is found
in India to SE Asia.
| Identification credit: Rakesh Singh | Photographed in Surat, Gujarat. |
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