| Blunt-Leaf Coca |
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| File size | 421199 |
| Original date | 6/16/17 2:02 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 9.0 |
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| Metering Mode | $meteringMode |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 600D |
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Botanical name: Erythroxylum obtusifolium Family: Erythroxylaceae (Coca family)
Synonyms: Sethia obtusifolia
Synonyms: Sethia obtusifolia
Blunt-Leaf Coca is a shrub with leaves elliptic to
obovate, wedge-shaped to blunt at base, pointed at tip with an blunt
tip, 4-9 x 2-5 cm, reddish brown when dry; midnerve prominent beneath,
sunken above; lateral nerves 8-11 pairs, distinct on both surfaces.
Leaf-stalks are 4-7 mm long; stipules lanceshaped, 5-7 mm long, off
leaving a scar. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, solitary or in pairs,
yellowish white; flower-stalks about 3 mm long, elongating to about 5
mm in fruit, swollen. Sepals are ovate, pointed at tip, about 1.5 mm
long. Petals are oblong, rounded at tip, about 4.5 x 1.5 mm. Fruits are
oblong, about 1.3 x 0.4 cm, longitudinally ridged, red when mature;
free parts of filaments also persistent along with staminal tube.
Blunt-Leaf Coca is found in South India and Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith | Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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