| Tri-Nerved Pigeonpea |
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| Original date | 10/9/24 9:58 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 4.15mm |
| Exposure time | 1/460s |
| Aperture | 2.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Apple |
| Camera model | iPhone SE (1st generation) |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Cajanus trinervius Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Collaea trinervia, Odonia trinervia, Atylosia trinervia
Synonyms: Collaea trinervia, Odonia trinervia, Atylosia trinervia
Tri-Nerved Pigeonpea is a shrub, densely golden brown
velvet-hairy. Flowers are borne in 1-2 flowered racemes, velvet-hairy.
Sepal-tube is 5 mm, lower teeth 7 mm, lanceshaped, woolly. Petals are
yellow, standard petals 2 x 0.9 cm, obovate, circular, clawed; wings
1.5 cm, obovate; keels clawed; staminal tube 1.4 cm; ovary 5 mm,
densely velvet-hairy. Leaves are trifoliate, with leaflets up to 6 x
2.2 cm, elliptic, tip blunt, with a short sharp point, base blunt,
velvet-hairy above and woolly below, hairless above when mature.
Leaflets are tri-nerved at the base, lateral oblique at the base,
ovate, elliptic, smaller; leaf-stalk 1.5 cm, leaflet-stalk 2 mm,
woolly, stipules 8 mm, triangular, tapering. Pod are 3-4 seeded, 3 x
1.2 cm, oblong, constricted, densely velvet-hairy. Tri-Nerved Pigeonpea
is found in South India, Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith | Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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