| Fragrant Milk Vetch |
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| Original date | 4/22/22 9:19 PM |
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| Focal length | 48.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 16.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Astragalus graveolens Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Astragalus bodinieri, Astragalus medullaris, Astragalus stipulatus
Synonyms: Astragalus bodinieri, Astragalus medullaris, Astragalus stipulatus
Fragrant Milk Vetch is a tall undershrub, with
hairless branches. Leaves are imparipinnately compound, about 10-17 cm
long, leaflets 17-25, about 1.2-2.6 cm long, round elliptical-ovate,
blunt, hairless on both sides; stipules about 2.5-3.8 cm long, free,
leaf-like. Flowers are borne in a stalked raceme, in leaf-axils, about
15-30 cm long. Bracts are linear, hairless. Flowers are yellow,
vexillum about 1.8-2.0 cm long, slightly exceeding the wings and keel,
hairless. Flower-stalks are about 2-3.5 mm long. Sepal-cup about 9-10
mm long, mouth oblique, teeth about 3 mm long. Fruit is about 2.5-4.0
cm long, about 6-8 mm broad, sword-shaped, hairless, bilocular,
12-18-seeded; stipe about 9-10 mm long. Fragrant Milk Vetch is found
in the Himalayas, from Afghanistan, W. Pakistan to W Himalaya, S.
Tibet, SW China, at altitudes of 500-2100 m.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh. |
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