Now i am stuck. Your (photograph) plant i have seen in Sindh province, Karachi to be more exact. We used to eat the unripe seed pod(childhood). Sindh's climate is different equal to zone 11. Desert, hot, waterless, worse than Arid. Schindian belt from Africa, Iran(South), Sindh to about Punjab. As Sindh was a part of the Bombay Presidency then the Western Ghats to Hydrabad (Deccan) to Rajastan, Cholistan desert. Forget it, i am learning.
Most of the plants in this (current topic photograph) area have China at the end. (Chininensis) China is huge from Himalayas to Mongolia to Pacific to Russia. Indica is also huge, from Afghanistan, Iran to Himalayas to Thailand to Sri Lanka. Different terrain, different eco-systems. The names do no justice to Himalayan plants. I cannot argue so a close up is required but you are 100% correct according to what i can recollect. Ok! please shift the photograph.
Our data base(Pakistan's) is no good, plants and nature not a priority. British text books are outdated and as i am a student of the Materia Medica the plants never changed their names to keep confusion away. So, when i go looking on the net then i find out that the plant has shifted from here to there and from there, that's another tale.
Not a Botany student my detective work is slipshod and i have to improve it. Sorry.
Regards,
Masud.
