| Antispiral Water Trumpet |
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| File size | 304801 |
| Original date | 1/17/14 2:10 PM |
| Resolution | 1080 x 810 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.28mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 3.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-HX9V |
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Botanical name: Cryptocoryne retrospiralis Family: Araceae (Arum family)
Synonyms: Cryptocoryne roxburghiana, Cryptocoryne dalzellii
Synonyms: Cryptocoryne roxburghiana, Cryptocoryne dalzellii
Antispiral Water Trumpet is a stolon forming marshy
herb. Leaves are many, up to 16 x 0.8 cm, linear-oblong, pointed,
hairless, sheath white, closed. Peduncle are 2-3 cm long, slender,
solitary. Spathe is 10-12 cm long, partitioned by a transverse diaphrum
above the spadix; tube above the diaphrum 6 cm long, limb 3 cm long,
spirally twisted, acuminate, pale brown with deep brown spots. Spadix
14 mm long, included in the chamber, slender at middle. Female flowers
are 4 or 5, one-whorled at the base; ovaries connate, l-celled, ovules
many, on parietal placentas; style short, curved. Neutral flowers 4-6,
above the female flowers as a whorl of appendages. Male flowers are
many, in terminal globose clusters; stamens 1 or 2. Antispiral Water
Trumpet is found in South and NE India, and Myanmar.
Flowering: November-March.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Sakleshpur Taluk, Hassan, Karnataka. |
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