| Longleaf Alyce Clover |
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| File size | 599521 |
| Original date | 10/31/19 10:11 AM |
| Resolution | 2448 x 1836 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 3.59mm |
| Exposure time | 1/358s |
| Aperture | 2.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Motorola |
| Camera model | Moto G Play |
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Botanical name: Alysicarpus longifolius Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Hedysarum longifolium
Synonyms: Hedysarum longifolium
Longleaf Alyce Clover is an erect or spreading
perennial herb, with hairless stem growing up to 1.2-1.5 m tall.
Flowers are borne in dense spike-like raceme, 15-30 cm long. They are
shaped like pea-flower, pink and yellow. Bracts are often longer than
1.3 cm, ovate, tapering, silky outside, falling off. Flower-stalks are
about 2.5 mm long. Sepal-cup is 6-16 mm long, striped, velvet-hairy,
teeth longer than the tube. Stipules are 9-20 mm long, scarious, very
pointed. Leaf-stalks are 3-10 mm long, leaves 5-15.0 cm long, 0.9-1.9
cm broad, oblong or lanceshaped, blunt or somewhat pointed, base
somewhat heart-shaped, hairless above. Pods are 0.9-1.3 cm long, 2-2.5
mm broad, shortly stalked, constricted between seeds, minutely
velvet-hairy, netveined, veins not obscure. Longleaf Alyce Clover is
found in Arabian Peninsula, Indian Subcontinent, and North Australia.
Flowering: September-October.
| Identification credit: Rakesh Singh | Photographed in Surat, Gujarat. |
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