| Prostrate Rattlepod |
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| File size | 344707 |
| Original date | 9/1/12 3:30 PM |
| Resolution | 2112 x 1584 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| 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 prostrata Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Prostrate Rattlepod is a prostrate annual herb,
15-50 cm long. Branches are velvety, hairs silky. Leaves are simple,
about 1.8-3.8 cm long, about 1-2 cm broad, oblong or oblong-obovate,
blunt, oblique or somewhat heart-shaped at the base, velvet-hairy on
both sides, hairs silky, yellowish. Flowers are borne in a 2-4-flowered
raceme, carried on stalks longer than the leaf. Bract and bracteoles
minute. Flower-stalks are short. Sepal tube is 3-4.5 mm long, densely
velvety, teeth linear. Flowers are yellowish, or whitish, not exserted.
Seed-pod is about 1.2-1.6 cm long, inflated, hairless, 12-15-seeded.
Prostrate Rattlepod is found in the Himalayas, from Hazara to Sikkim,
Ceylon, Malaysia, at atitudes of 500-2000 m. Flowering:
October-November.
| Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed in Sirmaur Distt., Himachal Pradesh. |
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