| Small-Flowered Alyce Clover |
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| File size | 416457 |
| Original date | 10/6/12 10:38 AM |
| Resolution | 4000 x 3000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 3.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Alysicarpus parviflorus Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Desmodium alysicarpoides, Desmodiastrum parviflorum, Desmodiastrum racemosum var. parviflorum
Synonyms: Desmodium alysicarpoides, Desmodiastrum parviflorum, Desmodiastrum racemosum var. parviflorum
Small-Flowered Alyce Clover is an erect or nearly
erect herbs, up to 1 foot tall, with stem hairy. Leaves are trifoliate,
with leaflets 4.5 x 2 cm, elliptic pointed at tip, rounded at base,
woolly below. Lateral leaflets are much smaller. Flowers are borne in
racemes up to a foot long, at branch-ends, flower-stalks 2 or
3-together. Flowers are blue to pink; sepal-cup 4.5 mm long, sepals
linear-lanceshaped, densely hairy, standard 3 x 2.5 mm, hairless. Pods
are curved, 6-jointed, joint 2 x 1.5 mm, straight along one suture,
hairless. Small-Flowered Alyce Clover is found in India, Myanmar, E.
Jawa.
Flowering: September-December.
| Identification credit: Shantanu Chavan, M.V.Krishnaraj | Photographed at Raigad, Maharashtra. |
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