| Medick Rattlepod |
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| File size | 343815 |
| Original date | 9/6/12 5:07 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 3.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A495 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Crotalaria medicaginea var. medicaginea Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Crotalaria procumbens, Crotalaria virgata, Indigofera capitata
Synonyms: Crotalaria procumbens, Crotalaria virgata, Indigofera capitata
Medick Rattlepod is a perennial herb, about 30 cm
or less tall. Stem is branched, sparsely velvety, hairs prostrate.
Leaves are trifoliolate, stalk about 2.5-5.5 mm long. Leaflets are
about 6-10 mm long, about 2.5-4.5 mm broad, inverted-lanceshaped to
obovate, blunt to flat tipped apiculate, hairless above, velvety below.
Leaflet-staks are short; stipules minute, threadlike. Flowers are borne
in terminal and leaf-opposed, in 2-6-flowered raceme, appearing much
like Medick plants. Bract minute, linear, subulate. Sepal cup is 2.5 mm
long, pubescent, teeth acute, longer than the tube. Flowers are yellow.
Vexillum about 5-6 mm long, pubescent externally. Fruit is almost
spherical, about 4 mm or less long, velvety, beaked, 2-seeded. Medick
Rattlepod is found in Pakistan, India, Malay Isles, Afghanistan, China
and Australia, at altitudes of 100-1400 m. Flowering: March-August.
| Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |
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