| Wavy-Leaf Desmodium |
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| File size | 298417 |
| Original date | 1/8/15 10:34 AM |
| Resolution | 1400 x 1050 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Hylodesmum repandum Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Desmodium repandum, Hedysarum repandum
Synonyms: Desmodium repandum, Hedysarum repandum
Wavy-Leaf Desmodium is an undershrub with branches
slender. Leaves are few, trifolitae. Leaflets are up to 20 x 6 cm,
ovate, tapering, rounded at base, hairless above, nerves finely
netveinedd below, margin wavy, stipules ovate, tapering. Flowers are
red or orangish red, borne in panicled racemes, at branch-ends or in
leaf-axils. Axis is woolly, up to 25 cm long; calyx 4-lobed,
bell-shaped; standard to 10 mm across, reddish, round or flat at tip.
Joints of pod 2 or 3, to 1.5 x 0.6 cm, sickle shaped, densely covered
with hooked hairs. Wavy-Leaf Desmodium is widely distributed in the
world in Paleotropics. In India it is found in Western Ghats and
Eastern Himalayas, at elevations of 1300-2000 m. Flowering:
December-January.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka. |
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