| Sahyadri Flemingia |
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| File size | 704891 |
| Original date | 10/6/25 2:46 PM |
| Resolution | x |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 2.13mm |
| Exposure time | 1/291s |
| Aperture | 2.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | iQOO |
| Camera model | iQOO 9 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Flemingia rollae Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Maughania rollae, Lepidocoma rollae
Synonyms: Maughania rollae, Lepidocoma rollae
Sahyadri Flemingia is an erect herb with a branched
stem, 3-4 mm in diameter, angular, and velvet-hairy with long white
hairs. Flowers are borne at branch-ends in 15-25-flowered dense heads,
with ovate, tapering, many-nerved, gland- dotted, and densely hairy
bracts. Flowers are purple; standard obovate, flat at tip, clawed with
2 ears at the base; wings oblong, keel petals fused along half their
length on the lower side, slightly curved. All petals are velvet-hairy,
gland-dotted on the outer surface. Stamens are 10. Sepal-cup is
bell-shaped, hairy, with 5 equal linear to lanceshaped many-nerved
sepals. Leaves are trifoliolate, stipulate, stalked, and velvet-hairy
with white hairs; ovate, tapering, fused, many-nerved, ovate to
elliptic. Pods exceed the sepal-cup, are beaked, turgid, hairless,
1-seeded. Sahyadri Flemingia grows on high altitude plateaus of
northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra. Flowering: October-November.
| Identification credit: Aakash Raut, Sandip Gavade | Photographed at Torna Fort, Pune. |
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