| One-Flowered Indigo |
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| File size | 312237 |
| Original date | 11/6/10 9:25 AM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS REBEL T2i |
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Botanical name: Indigofera uniflora Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Indigofera aspalathoides sensu Dalzell & A.Gibson
Synonyms: Indigofera aspalathoides sensu Dalzell & A.Gibson
One-Flowered Indigo is a prostrate herb with
slender elongate much branched reddish stem. Leaves are 3-5-foliolate;
leaflets up to 7 x 3 mm, linear-oblong, tip pointed, with minute
prostrate hairs; stipules minute, falling off. Flowers are borne
usually solitary in the leaf axils, on flower-stalk up to 4 mm long,
slender thread-like. Sepals are lanceshaped, nearly equal, sparsely
hairy. Petals are red, clawed; standard obovate; wings slightly
coherent with keels. Stamens are 9+1. Ovary is stalkless. Pods are
1-1.3 cm long, linear, straight. Seeds are 4-7. One-Flowered Indigo is
endemic to Peninsular India. Flowering: September-December.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Velanthavalam, Plaghat distt., Kerala. |
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