| Clustered-Flower Snoutbean |
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| Original date | 8/24/17 1:30 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 15.2mm |
| Exposure time | 1/425s |
| Aperture | 3.7 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | HDR-CX220E |
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Botanical name: Rhynchosia capitata Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Glycine capitata, Nomismia capitata
Synonyms: Glycine capitata, Nomismia capitata
Clustered-Flower Snoutbean is a prostrate or climbing
herb, with stem hairy, branched; stipules 1.5-2.0 mm long,
heart-shaped, hairy. Leaves are trifoliolate compound, leaf-stalk
2.5-12.5 cm long, hairy, leaflet-stalk up to 1.5 cm long, hairy; blade
1.8-4.0 cm long, 1.5-4.1 cm broad, rhomboid, sometimes oblique, entire,
blunt, scantily velvet-hairy. Flowers are borne in 4-6-flowered umbels
in leaf-axils. Flower-cluster-stalk is 0.5-3.5 cm, hairy. Bracts are
about 2.5 mm long, heart-shaped, hairy; flower-stalks about 3-4 mm
long, hairy. Sepal-cup is 1.0-1.3 cm long, hairy, lower tooth longest
7-9 mm long. Vexillum 1.0-1.2 cm long, hairless externally. Fruit is
1.0-1.3 cm long 1-1.2 cm broad, with a short sharp point transversely
striped, hairy. Clustered-Flower Snoutbean is found in Pakistan,
India, Sri Lanka.
Flowering: September-October.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. |
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