| Oval-Leaf Alyce Clover |
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| File size | 347858 |
| Original date | 9/24/22 2:52 PM |
| Resolution | 4608 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 4.05mm |
| Exposure time | 1/164s |
| Aperture | 1.78 |
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| Metering Mode | $meteringMode |
| Camera make | Lenovo |
| Camera model | Lenovo L38111 |
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Botanical name: Alysicarpus ovalifolius Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Oval-Leaf Alyce Clover is an annual herb,
erect-spreading, 20-60 cm tall, with stem velvet-hairy. Leaves are
unifoliolate, leaflets 1-10 cm long, 0.6-3 cm broad, elliptic or oblong
to narrowly lanceshaped, pointed to notched, with a short sharp point,
finely velvet-hairy, leaf-stalk 2-8 mm long, leaflet-stalk 1-1.5 mm
long, stipules 0.5-2.0 cm long. Inflorescence at branch-ends or
leaf-opposed or paniculate, flower-cluster-stalk 3-4 cm long, axis 3-11
cm long, flower-stalk 1-2 mm long. Bracts 4-5 mm long. Calyx 4.5-6 mm
long, velvet-hairy, teeth 3-4 mm long. Flower orange-buff to pink or
reddish violet rarely whitish, Vexillum 4-6 mm long. Fruit 1.8-2.5 cm
long, 2-8-seeded, not constricted, each 1-seeded part 2.5-4 mm long,
2.0-2.5 mm broad, finely velvet-hairy. Oval-Leaf Alyce Clover is native
to Africa to Indian Subcontinent. It is also found in Western Himalaya.
Flowering: September-October.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Bijnor, U.P. & Goa. |
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