| Rough Rattlepod |
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| File size | 262990 |
| Original date | 1/10/23 7:47 PM |
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| Flash | Flash fired, return not detected |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 29.0 |
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| Metering Mode | $meteringMode |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5600 |
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Botanical name: Crotalaria scabra Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Rough Rattlepod is a densely brown hairy shrub with
brownish yellow flowers, 1.5-2 cm long. Standard petal has a line of
brown hair along midrib; wings with transverse scaly folds; keels
cottony on inner margins. Staminal sheath 4-5 mm long, filaments 4-6 mm
long, style 0.8-1 cm long. Sepal-cup is 1-1.5 cm long, densely hairy;
sepals 5, almost equal. Flowers are borne in few flowered racemes with
flowers up to the tip of racemes. Leaves 2-3 x 1-1.5 cm, blunt at tip,
round at base; margins recurved. Stipules are thread-like, 0.5-0.7 cm
long. Pods are 3-3.5 x 1.2-1.5 cm, oblong. Seeds are 3-4 mm in
diameter, concavo-convex. Rough Rattlepod is endemic to Southern
Western Ghats. Flowering: January-March.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu. |
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