| Cat Spider Flower |
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| File size | 714215 |
| Original date | 10/10/15 3:20 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 19.7mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1000s |
| Aperture | 4.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Average |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Cleome felina Family: Cleomaceae (Spider Flower family)
Synonyms: Polanisia felina
Synonyms: Polanisia felina
Cat Spider Flower is a prostrate herb, up to 50 cm
long; branchlets radiating, ascending. Leaves are apically simple,
basally 3-foliate; leaflets obovate; middle one 1.5-3 x 0.7-1 cm;
laterals 0.5-1 x 0.5-0.7 cm, base wedge-shaped, margin fringed with
hairs, tip blunt, leaf-stalk up to 2 cm. Flower racemes are 5.5 cm
long, flowers 1.5 cm across. Sepals are 4, linear or lanceshaped, 5 x
0.5 mm long. Petals are 4, rose, obovate, 7 x 2.5 mm, velvet-hairy
without, stamens 20-25. Capsule flat, 3 x 0.5 cm, closely striped,
hairless, beak 2.5 mm, seeds many, 1.5 mm across. Common in Eastern
Ghats. Flowering: May-November.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Anathapur District, Andhra Pradesh. |
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