Common name: Tender Eyelashes Shell Beans • Marathi: लहान बरकी Lahan barki
Botanical name:Geissaspis cristata var. tenellaFamily:Fabaceae (Pea family) Synonyms: Geissaspis tenella
Tender Eyelashes Shell Beans is a small annual herb, growing up to 8-20 cm
tall. Stems and branches are slender and purplish. Leaves are compound,
carried on 3-5 mm long stalks. Leaflets are 4, stalkless, 5-6 mm long,
obovate, oblique, rounded, with a wedge-shaped base. Flowers are borne in
racemes in leaf axils. They are yellow with a reddish tinge. Bracts are
oblique, 3-4 mm, toothed, spinous. Pods are 1-2 jointed.
Flowering: September.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
Photographed in Panvel, Maharashtra & Karnataka.
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