Double Paired Smithia is an annual herb, 15-30 cm tall, with bristly
branches. Leaves are strange, with two pairs of almost stalkless leaflets,
9-12 mm long, 4.5-9 mm broad. The species name bigemina precisely means double paired. Leaflets are obovate, serrated, tip blunt and
bristle-pointed, base rounded or subacute. Inflorescence is a 2-8-flowered
peduncled axillary cyme. Calyx bristly 2-lipped ; lower 3-lobed ; upper
slightly emarginate. Yellow flower tube 4-8 mm long, twice the length of
calyx. Stamens 5+5; anthers uniform. Pods 6-8 jointed, joints reticulate.
Flowering: September-December.
Identification credit: Dinesh Valke
Photographed at Kas plateau, Satara, Maharashtra.
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