| Short-Margined Indigo |
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| File size | 597807 |
| Original date | 11/23/14 10:41 AM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1000s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Indigofera trita var. marginulata Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Indigofera marginulata
Synonyms: Indigofera marginulata
Short-Margined Indigo is a subshrub, with
branchlets clothed with adpressed hairs. Leaves are compound, up to 10
cm; leaflets 5, opposite, at branch-ends leaflets larger, to 4 x 2 cm,
oblong-obovate, tip blunt, mucronate, membranous, pilose; stipules 2
mm, linear. Flowers are borne in racemes in leaf-axils, up to 10 cm.
Flower-stalks are up to 2 mm; flowers pink; calyx tube 1 mm,
bell-shaped, hairy, sepals to 1.5 and 2 mm, lanceshaped, unequal;
staminal tube 3 mm; anthers apiculate; ovary 3 mm, oblong, style
curved, 1.5 mm.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. |
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