| Small Rattlepod |
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| File size | 265830 |
| Original date | 8/28/21 12:50 PM |
| Resolution | x |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 2.13mm |
| Exposure time | 1/384s |
| Aperture | 2.4 |
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| Metering Mode | $meteringMode |
| Camera make | samsung |
| Camera model | SM-M515F |
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Botanical name: Crotalaria pusilla Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Small Rattlepod is the smallest of all rattlepods - an
annual herb, 15 cm or so tall,
densely silky. Leaves are linear, very small, 6-18 mm long, densely silky,
blunt at tip. Yellow flowers are borne in lax 3-6-flowered racemes at
branch ends. Sepal cup is bell-shaped, silky, 2 mm deep, teeth long, all
linear. Flowers are pea-flower shaped, barely protruding beyond the sepals.
Pods are 4 mm long, thinly silky, 4-8-seeded. Small Rattlepod is native
to the Western Ghats. Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma | Photographed at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra & Nandi Hills, Karnataka. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,