Mountain Rattlepod is a spreading herb with
branches radiating from a perennial stout root stock. Leaves are up to
1.5 x 0.5 cm, inverted-lanceshaped, blunt, hairy below. Flowers are
borne in racemes u[ to 6 cm long, at branch-ends; bracts and bracteoles
minute. Flowers are 1 cm long, yellow; calyx 9 mm long; sepals unequal;
standard 8 mm across, round, hairy on back; wings 8 x 3 mm, rugose;
keel hairless. Pods are 9 x 3 mm, obovate, hairless; seeds few.
Mountain Rattlepod is found in Indo-Malesia. Flowering:
December-January.
Identification credit: Dimple Bhati, S. Kasim
Photographed in Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh & Vellore distt, Tamil Nadhu.
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