| Double Paired Smithia |
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| File size | 420266 |
| Original date | 10/19/07 11:49 AM |
| Resolution | 2816 x 2112 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ7 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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 | Photo: Dinesh Valke |
Botanical name: Smithia bigemina Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
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. |