| Kerala Smithia |
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| File size | 540202 |
| Original date | 10/31/23 10:00 AM |
| Resolution | 3072 x 3072 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.06mm |
| Exposure time | 1/436s |
| Aperture | 1.69 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | realme |
| Camera model | realme 11 Pro+ 5G |
| Sensor type | Undefined |
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Botanical name: Smithia venkobarowii Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Smithia venkobarowii var. glabra
Synonyms: Smithia venkobarowii var. glabra
Kerala Smithia is an erect subshrub, up to 70
cm tall; stem white, yellowish hairy. Leaves are compound with 2-4
pairs of leaflets, 2-2.5 x 0.5 cm, oblong, blunt, with a short sharp
point, glaucous beneath, hairless, axis hairy; stipules 1.2 cm long,
2-lobed at base; hairless. Flowers are borne in racemes 2 cm across;
congested; bracts deciduous; bracteoles 3 x 1.5 mm, obovate, bristled.
Flowers are few, yellow; sepal-cup 7 mm long, lips similar, blunt,
sparsely fringed with hairs; standard 1 cm across, yellow. Joints of
pods are 3 x 2.5 mm, round, strongly netveined, smooth, 5-7 together.
Kerala Smithia is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Vagamon, Kerala. |
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