| Burma Micrargeria |
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| File size | 365931 |
| Original date | 12/27/18 7:37 AM |
| Resolution | 1900 x 1425 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Micrargeria wightii Family: Orobanchaceae (Broomrape family)
Burma Micrargeria is a rough, erect branched herb,
black when dry. Leaves are oppositely arranged, upper sometimes
alternate, pinnately cut, 3.5 cm long, velvet-hairy. Flowers are borne
in spikes or racemes, at branch-ends or in the upper axils. Flowers are
pink-purple, tube bell-shaped, dialated above; lobes 2+3, obscurely
2-lipped, nearly equal; upper lip inner in bud. Sepals are spreading
above, 5 mm; stamens didynamous; filaments 1-2 mm; anthers attached by
their tips, 1.5 mm, blunt; ovary 1 mm, spherical, style 3 mm, stigma
club-shaped. Capsules are 3 mm across. Burma Micrargeria is found in
Peninsular India and Myanmar. Flowering: December-February.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu. |
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