| Ascending Dew-Grass |
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| File size | 119329 |
| Original date | 10/6/13 11:20 AM |
| Resolution | 880 x 660 |
| Flash | Flash fired, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Cyanotis adscendens Family: Commelinaceae (Dayflower family)
Synonyms: Cyanotis tuberosa var. adscendens, Cyanotis sarmentosa
Synonyms: Cyanotis tuberosa var. adscendens, Cyanotis sarmentosa
Ascending Dew-Grass flowers are borne in clusters
at the tips of flowering shoots. Cinicinni are elongate up to 2.5 cm,
straight to strongly curled, bract ususally shorter than the cincinnus.
Flowers are bisexual, sepals inverted-laceshaped, oblong or lanceshaped
oblong, 4.5-6 x 1-1.5 mm, pilose and sometimes ciliate the margins.
Corolla is 5-6 mm wide, pink to purple or reddish violet, petals with
white reflexed tips. Stamens are spreading 8-10 mm wide, filaments
densely bearded with pink to lavender hairs, anthers orange-yellow.
Style is nearly equal to the stamens. Capsules are 2.5-3 x 2 mm, with
dark brown spots and short streaks. Leaf rosettes are perennial, root
tuberous. Flowering shoots are borne in leaf axils, 7-35 cm, sometimes
rooting at the nodes. Rosette leaves are spirally arranged. linear to
linear-lanceshaped, 10-15 cm long, 0.5-1 cm wide. Stem leaves are ovate
to lanceshaped-elliptic, 1-3 x 0.3-0.9 cm. Ascending Dew-Grass is found
in South India and Sri Lanka.
Identification credit: Mayur Nandikar
| Photographed in Harishchandragad, Maharashtra. |