| Climbing Diamond Flower |
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| File size | 209189 |
| Original date | 11/10/18 3:21 PM |
| Resolution | 1200 x 900 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 16.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Dimetia scandens Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Hedyotis scandens, Hedyotis volubilis, Oldenlandia scandens
Synonyms: Hedyotis scandens, Hedyotis volubilis, Oldenlandia scandens
Climbing Diamond Flower is a climbing herb, branchlets
4-angled. Leaves are simple, opposite decussate; stipules flat with
2-cusps; leaf-stalks about 0.3-0.6 cm long, blade about 4-11 x 0.5-4.5
cm, oblong-lanceshaped to elliptic-lanceshaped or linear, pointed or
tapering at base, tapering at tip, entire, pale-green underneath;
secondary nerves 5-7 pairs, rising up. Flowers are about 6 mm across in
leaf-axils or at branch-ends, in panicles of cymes, white; bracts
subulate, about 0.3 cm. Flower-stalks are about 2 mm long; calyx-tube
obconic, about 1.5 mm; sepals triangular, about 0.1 cm. Petals are
oblong, about 4 x 1 mm, pointed, truned back. Stamen filaments are
about 4 mm long; styles velvet-hairy at far end. Capsules are about 3
mm in diameter, spherical. Climbing Diamond Flower is found in the
Himalayas, from Nepal to Bhutan, Khasia, Burma, Indo-China, at
altitudes of 400-1800 m. Flowering: July-September.
| Identification credit: M. Sawmliana | Photographed in Reiek area, Mizoram. |
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