| Bristly-Sepal Ruspolia |
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| File size | 640491 |
| Original date | 11/5/19 8:06 AM |
| Resolution | 4608 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 7.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/50s |
| Aperture | 3.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX P530 |
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Botanical name: Ruspolia seticalyx Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Eranthemum seticalyx, Pseuderanthemum seticalyx
Synonyms: Eranthemum seticalyx, Pseuderanthemum seticalyx
Bristly-Sepal Ruspolia is an erect evergreen, branched
herb, 0.5-1.2 m tall, with cylindrical stem. Leaves, carried on a 1 cm
long leaf-stalk, are opposite, simple, ovate-elliptic with pointed tip
and more or less fringed with hairs, entire margin, 10-18 cm long and
5-8 cm broad, with prominent nervations. Flowers are borne in 5-30 cm
long, branch end panicle, with velvet-hairy axis, bearing several
hermaphroditic flowers opening in succession from the bottom to the
top. Sepal-cup, about 0.5 cm long, hairless or with tiny white bristles
on the sepals. Flowers with red tube, 2-3 cm long, have 5 elliptic
petals, 0.8-1.5 cm long, salmon pink to orange red. The fruit is a
3-3.5 cm long capsule containing some seeds almost circular and flat.
Bristly-Sepal Ruspolia is native to Africa, cultivated elsewhere.
| Identification credit: Anil Thakur | Photographed in cultivation in Shimla. |
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