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Smooth Rattlepod, salts rattlebox, streaked rattlepod |
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| Halbi Name | Nani jhunjhuna |
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| Vernacular name | Striped crotalaria | |
| Scientific name | Crotalaria pallida Aiton Crotalaria mucronata, Crotalaria striata | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | A perennial herb or subshrub, with stems ascending or erect, 1-2 m tall. | |
| Leaves | Trifoliate, leaflets elliptic, ovate, or oblanceolate, 2.8-9.5 cm long, 1.2-4.5 cm wide. Leaf base is wedge-shaped or rounded, with leaf stalk 2.2-6.7 cm long. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Flowers are 1-1.5 cm long, 22-75 in terminal, somewhat lax inflorescences about 15-40 cm long. Petals are yellow with lines near base, standard petal 0.9-1.2 cm long, 7-9 mm wide, keel petals striate, with nontwisted prolonged beak. | |
| Fruit/ seed | Pods brown at maturity, 3.5-3.8 cm long. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Upland, open field | |
| Flowering and fruiting | October- January | |
| Associated with | Wasteland flora | |
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