| Bracted Mistletoe |
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| File size | 537137 |
| Original date | 7/3/16 9:56 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 14.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5200 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Taxillus heyneanus Family: Loranthaceae (Mistletoe family)
Synonyms: Taxillus bracteatus (B.Heyne ex Roxb.) Tiegh., Loranthus bracteatus
Synonyms: Taxillus bracteatus (B.Heyne ex Roxb.) Tiegh., Loranthus bracteatus
Bracted Mistletoe is a parasitic shrub with
branchlets tawny velvet-hairy. Leaves are alternate, to 2-4 x 1.5-3 cm,
obovate, round, tip blunt, base wedge-shaped, velvet-hairy; leaf-stalk
1 cm. Flowers are borne in cymes in leaf-axils; flower-cluster-stalks
up to 0.5 cm; bracts 1 x 0.5 cm, inverted-lanceshaped; velvet-hairy.
Flower-stalks are 2 mm; calyx 2 mm, very white hairy, margins obscurely
toothed; flower split on one side to half, dilated at middle, tube to 2
cm, woolly, lobes 5, 6 mm, oblong; filaments 3 mm; ovary 2 mm, oblong,
style 2.5 cm, stigma spherical. Fruits are broadly ellipsoid, crowned
by persistent calyculus, 9-12 x 3-4 mm, smooth, sparsely hairy. Bracted
Mistletoe is found in Deccan and Western Peninsula, found on a variety
of hosts in scrub jungles, roadsides and deciduous forests, at low
altitudes. Flowering: April-November.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma | Photographed in Bangalore, Karnataka. |
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