| Chinese Fan-Petals |
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| File size | 180755 |
| Original date | 9/9/11 9:53 AM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 50.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSLR-A100 |
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Botanical name: Sida yunnanensis Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Chinese Fan-Petals is a perennial herb or
undershrub, with velvety stem 0.5-1.5 m tall. Leaves are very variable
in shape and size. Stipules are 5-8 mm long, threadlike. Leaf-stalks
are 4-10 mm long. Leaves are narrow to broad elliptic, oblong-elliptic,
rhomboid or obovate, 1-6.5 cm long, 0.6-5 cm broad, lower surface
cinereous, velvety, upper surface green, hairless, toothed, tip pointed
to blunt, base wedge-shaped or blunt. Flowers are borne in leaf axils,
mostly in fascicles in terminal branches. Flower-stalks are 4-6 mm
long, in fruit about 1 cm, jointed in the middle or slightly above.
Sepal-cup is 4-6 mm long, sepals fused slightly above the middle,
triangular, long-pointed, carinate at base. Flowers are 1 cm across,
yellow, petals slightly longer than sepals, about 4 mm broad, obovate,
margins sparsely hairy at base. Stamen tube is about 3 mm long,
sparsely hairy. Carpels are 5. Fruit is depressed, round, 4-5 mm
across, densely velvety on the upper half.
Chinese Fan-Petals is found in Burma, China, India and Pakistan.
September-December.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
| Photographed in Vikaspuri, Delhi. |