| Showy Rosary Pea |
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| File size | 523998 |
| Original date | 9/25/12 9:42 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 3.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A495 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Abrus pulchellus Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Abrus laevigatus, Abrus stictosperma
Synonyms: Abrus laevigatus, Abrus stictosperma
Showy Rosary Pea is a climbing liana with stem
slender, sparsely yellow hairy. Leaves are pinnate, alternate. Leaflets
are 6-10-paired, opposite. Leaflet-stalks are short, blades oblong,
or obovate-oblong, 0.5-3 x 0.3-1 cm, membranous, sparsely white bristly
or densely white hairy below, hairless or hairy above, rounded or
heart-shaped at base, flat and with mucro at the tip. Flower racemes
are borne in leaf axils, 3-10 cm long. Flowers are dense, 3-9 mm. Sepal
cup is bell-shaped, 4-toothed, white bristly or densely gray hairy.
Flowers are pink, purple, or purple-red. Stamens are 9. Seed-pods is
oblong, 5-6.5 x 0.8-1.5 cm, densely white hairy, splitting open with
4-12 seeds. Seeds are black-brown or black, lustrous to slightly
lustrous, elliptic or ovoid, compressed. Showy Rosary Pea is found in
tropical Himalayas, India, Ceylon, SE Asia and China, at altitudes of
200-1300 m.
Identification credit: Krishan Lal
| Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |