| Showy Pea-Shrub |
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| Original date | 11/8/19 4:40 PM |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Campylotropis speciosa Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Lespedeza speciosa
Synonyms: Lespedeza speciosa
Showy Pea-Shrub is a much-branched shrub up to 1 m or
more, with rather leathery trifoliate leaves, and with spikes 3-15 cm,
of many pink to deep red-purple flowers at branch-ends and in
leaf-axils. Flowers are purple, about 1.2 cm; calyx with linear teeth,
hairy. Leaflets are obovate with a wedge-shaped base and a fine bristly
tip, mostly 1-2 cm long, paler and densely white-hairy beneath, the
middie leaflet stalked. Pods are ovate with persistent beak, up to 8
rnm, densely hairy, often with remains of keel. Showy Pea-Shrub is
found in the Himalayas, from Kashrnir to Arunachal Pradesh, at
altitudes of 1800-3000 m. Flowering: August-September.
| Identification credit: J.M. Garg | Photographed in Shimla Water Catchment Wildlife Sanctuary, Himachal Pradesh. |
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