| Barestem Carpetweed |
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| File size | 690559 |
| Original date | 8/6/14 10:20 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot SX110 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Mollugo nudicaulis Family: Molluginaceae (Carpetweed family)
Synonyms: Lampetia nudicaulis
Synonyms: Lampetia nudicaulis
Barestem Carpetweed is an annual herb up to 22 cm
tall. Leaves are all at the base, 1.5-6.0 cm long, 6-16 mm broad,
spoon-shaped to inverted-lanceshaped, hairless, narrowing into the
stalk. Flowers are borne in dichasial cymes, leafless stem slender,
hairless, involucral bracts ovate-oblong, 1-2 mm long, rough.
Flower-stalks are up to 1.4 cm long. Sepals are oblong, 2.5-3.0 mm
long, mucronate, imbricate persistent. Filaments are 1 mm long,
persistent, anthers less than 1 mm long, sub-globose. Ovary
sub-globose, 1.5 mm long. Stigmas 3, short, curved. Capsule as long as
the sepals, sub-globose, dehiscing by 3 valves. Seeds less than 1 mm,
muricate, minutely strophiolate, black and shiny. Barestem Carpetweed
is found on sandy seashores in India, Pakistan and Tropical Africa.
Flowering: all year.
| Identification credit: M. Saradha | Photographed in Coimbatore district, Tamilnadu. |
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