| Unbranched Bean-Caper |
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| File size | 150802 |
| Original date | 12/16/17 11:28 AM |
| Resolution | 900 x 675 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 46.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 700D |
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Botanical name: Tetraena simplex Family: Zygophyllaceae (Caltrop family)
Synonyms: Zygophyllum simplex, Zygophyllum obtusum, Zygophyllum microphyllum
Synonyms: Zygophyllum simplex, Zygophyllum obtusum, Zygophyllum microphyllum
Unbranched Bean-Caper is an annual, nearly berect to
prostrate, 8-20 cm tall, profusely branched, hairless herb. Stem and
branches are pale-green or purplish, minutely striped. Leaves are
fleshy, simple, stalkless, oblong-cylindric, 4-18 mm long, tip blunt;
stipules lanceshaped, 2-3 mm long, pointed. Flowers are yellow, fading
to white, 4-5 mm across; flower-stalks slender, about 3 mm long; disc
10-lobed. Sepals are 5, elliptic-oblong, about 2 mm long, keeled,
hoodlike. Petals are 5, spoon-shaped, about 3 mm long, flat at the tip.
Stamens are 10, protruding, scales bipartite. Capsule deflexed,
top-shaped, rugulose, retuse, septicidally dehiscent into 5, 2-3
seeded, compressed cocci. Seeds are oblong. Unbranched Bean-Caper is
found in Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan), India, Iran, tropical and north
Africa, Cape Verde Islands and west Asia. Flowering: August-May.
Medicinal uses:
An infusion of leaves and
seeds is applied to the eyes in opthalmia and glucoma.
Medicinal uses:
An infusion of leaves and
seeds is applied to the eyes in opthalmia and glucoma. | Identification credit: Prashant Awale | Photographed near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. |
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