Rusty Snoutbean is shrub with trailing branches,
glandular-hairy. Leaves are trifoliate; leaflets 6.5 x 2.5 cm, ovate,
pointed, rounded at base; leaf-stalk 4-5 cm long; stipules ovate.
Flowers are borne in short racemes; calyx 8 mm long, sepals oblong,
blunt; petals included, yellow; standard 7 mm diam., round, hairless;
wings 5 mm long, oblong. Pods 7 x 5 mm, ovoid, turgid, minutely
bristly; seed-1, black. Rusty Snoutbean is found in Indo-Malesia. In
India it is found in Kerala and Karnataka.
Identification credit: Siddarth Machado
Photographed in Ananthapur district, Andhra Pradesh.
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