| Sweet-Scented Snoutbean |
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| File size | 315728 |
| Original date | 12/27/15 2:17 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Rhynchosia suaveolens Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Glycine suaveolens, Hedysarum venosum
Synonyms: Glycine suaveolens, Hedysarum venosum
Sweet-Scented Snoutbean is a sticky-hairy erect
undershrubs. Leaves are alternate, trifoliolate; leaflets up to 8 cm
long, pointed, ovate tapering. Flower-cluster-stalks arise in
leaf-axils, 2-flowered. Flowers are yellow; bracts usually falling off;
Calyx not accrescent, sepals lanceshaped, tapering, nearly equal.
Petals are included or protruding. Stamens are diadelphous; anthers
uniform. Ovary nearly stalkless, usually 2-rarely 1-ovuled; style long,
thread-like, much incurved; stigma capitate. Pod is indented without
between the seeds and with a partition within; seeds 2. Sweet-Scented
Snoutbean is found in South India and Sri Lanka. Flowering:
November-December.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed at Vellore, Tamil Nadu. |
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