| Indigo Sauvage |
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| File size | 511660 |
| Original date | 9/9/18 4:12 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 3.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX A900 |
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Botanical name: Tephrosia pumila Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Tephrosia procumbens, Tephrosia timoriensis, Tephrosia hirsuta
Synonyms: Tephrosia procumbens, Tephrosia timoriensis, Tephrosia hirsuta
Indigo Sauvage is a prostrate velvet-hairy herb with
compound leaves. Leaflets are up to 1.5 x 0.8 cm, obovate, with a short
sharp point, base wedge-shaped, silky velvet-hairy; leaflet-stalk is up
to 1 mm, stipule 5 mm, linear, hairy. Flowers are white, shaped like
pea-flowers. Bracts are 5 mm, linear; calyx tube 2 mm, velvet-hairy,
lobes 3 and 2 mm, linear, hairy. Flowers are 8 mm long; staminal tube 6
mm, filaments 2 mm; ovary 4 mm, woolly, style 2 mm, hairless. Pods are
3 cm long, 4 mm wide, oblong, velvet-hairy. Indigo Sauvage is found
throughout the Tropical world.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in JNU campus, Delhi. |
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