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Moon-bract Rattlepod
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Moon-bract Rattlepod
P Native Photo: Paulmathi Vinod
Common name: Moon-bract Rattlepod
Botanical name: Crotalaria lunulata    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)

Moon-bract Rattlepod Stiff erect undershrub, branchlets copious, clothed with dense spreading brown silky hairs. Bracts and bracteoles are crescent-shaped, recurved. Flowers are yellow, borne in elongated panicles. Leaves are simple, inverted-lanceshaped, 2.5-5 cm long, base wedge-shaped, tip pointed, margin entire. Stipules are oblong-lanceshaped. Pod are stalkless, oblong, bright brown, as long as sepal-cup, finely silky, scarcely protruding, seeds 1-2. Moon-bract Rattlepod is found in Peninsular India and Sri Lanka.

Identification credit: Siddarth Machado Photographed in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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