Common name: Fuzzy Fruited Rattlepod • Marathi: गोधड़ी Godhadi
Botanical name: Crotalaria hebecarpa Family: Fabaceae (Pea family) Synonyms: Goniogyna hebecarpa, Goniogyna hirta, Hallia hirta
Fuzzy Fruited Rattlepod is a prostrate annual herb. Leaves are simple,
stalkless, ovate-heart-shaped, 1-1.5 cm long, 5-8 mm wide, velvety,
pointed. Flowers are yellow, shaped like pea-flowers, arising singly in
leaf axils. Pods are flat, oblong, compressed. Seeds are brownish, kidney-
shaped. Fuzzy Fruited Rattlepod is occasionally found in open forests and
as a weed in cultivated fields. The plant forms a mat on the ground with
its branches, hence the common Marathi name. Flowering: September-March.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale & Shrikant Ingalhalikar
| Photographed in Pune, Maharashtra. |
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