| Hairy-Pod Rattlepod |
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| File size | 602736 |
| Original date | 10/18/18 3:40 PM |
| Resolution | 2992 x 2000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 16.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Crotalaria clarkei Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Hairy-Pod Rattlepod is an almost erect herbs with stem
four-edged, hairy. Leaves are simple, up to 4 x 1.3 cm, oblong, blunt,
somewhat heart-shaped at base, hairy below; leaf-stalk 1 mm long;
stipule 5 x 3 mm, ovate, oblique. Flowers are borne in racemes 6-10 cm
long, at branch-ends or in leaf-axils; bracts 4 x 3 mm, ovate,
heart-shaped. Flowers are few, yellow. Standard petals is 10 x 3 cm,
hairy outside; wings 9 x 3 mm, blunt; keel 1 cm long, fringed with
hairs. Sepal-cup is 1 cm long, sepals tapering, densely reddish-yellow.
Pods are 25 x 9 mm, oblong, densely hairy. Hairy-Pod Rattlepod is endemic
to Western Ghats. Flowering: November-January.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim, Anoop P. Balan, M.V. Krishnaraj | Photographed in Vagamon, Kerala. |
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