| Andaman Kanak Champa |
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| File size | 487390 |
| Original date | 11/4/09 2:44 PM |
| Resolution | 1700 x 1275 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-S730 |
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Botanical name: Pterospermum aceroides Family: Sterculiaceae (Cacao family)
Synonyms: Pterospermum acerifolium auct. non (L.) Willd.
Synonyms: Pterospermum acerifolium auct. non (L.) Willd.
Andaman Kanak Champa is a tree 12-16 m tall, with
young portions covered with a thin felted layer of minute white velvety
hairs. Leaves are 20-28 x 11-16 cm, obovate to oblong, heart-shaped at
base with somewhat unequal lobes, tapering at tip, entire, leathery,
hairless above, pale whitish star-shaped-velvet-hairy beneath; nerves
11-14. Jjuvenile leaves are much larger and palmately lobed;
leaf-stalks 1-2 cm long, stout. Flowers are 4-5 cm long; bracts broadly
ovate, woolly, thick. Sepals are 5, 3.5-5 x 0.4-0.6 cm, recurved,
scurfy woolly outside, velvet-hairy inside. Petals are 5, white, 3-4 cm
long, obovate. Stamens are 15, as long as the petals or shorter;
staminodes 5, longer than the stamens. Ovary is 5-locular, densely
silky; styles shorter than stamens; stigmas club-shaped. Capsules are
12-18 x 3-4 cm, hairless, black when mature. Seeds are many, in two
rows, about 1 x 1 cm, somewhat rhomboid; wing 3-4 cm long, narrowed
towards tip. Andaman Kanak Champa is found in Andaman Islands and
Myanmar. Flowering: October-March.
| Identification credit: Joju P. Alappatt | Photographed in Port Blair, South Andamans, |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,