| Paired Flower Smithia |
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| File size | 96730 |
| Original date | 9/28/09 8:45 AM |
| Resolution | 563 x 423 |
| Flash | Flash fired, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 14.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL |
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Botanical name: Smithia conferta Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Smithia geminiflora
Synonyms: Smithia geminiflora
Paired Flower Smithia is an annual herb, 3-4 ft long. Branches are long,
straight loke a rod, straggling, smooth with very long intemodes below.
Alternately arranged leaves are small, compound. Rachis is bristly.
Leaflets are 8-16, 0.6-1.2 cm long, oblong, blunt, with a short point at
the tip. Leaves are hairless above. Yellow flowers appear in pairs in the
axils of upper leaves, crowded at the end of branches. They are shaped like pea flowers. Flowering: November.
Identification credit: J. M. Garg & Aparna Watve
| Photographed in Goa. |