| Climbing Twisted-Lily |
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| File size | 252674 |
| Original date | 8/15/22 8:50 AM |
| Resolution | 2250 x 4000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 3.84mm |
| Exposure time | 1/156s |
| Aperture | 2.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Redmi Y3 |
| Sensor type | Undefined |
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Botanical name: Streptolirion volubile Family: Commelinaceae (Dayflower family)
Climbing Twisted-Lily is a herb mostly climbing,
rarely erect. Stems are 0.5-6 m, often hairless, or covered with yellow
or brown, multicellular hairs. Leaf-stalks are 3-11.5 cm; leaf blade
heart-shaped-round, less often heart-shaped-ovate, 5-15 x 3-15 cm,
above velvet-hairy, tip often with a tail. Cincinni with 1 to several
flowers, in panicles, rarely cymes. Proximal bracts are leaflike, 1.5-6
cm; distal ones smaller and ovate-lanceshaped, rarely linear or
lanceshaped and boat-shaped. Flower-stalks are absent. Sepals are 3-5
mm, tip pointed. Petals are white or pale purple first, then turning
white, linear or rarely thread-like, 6-7 x 0.3-1 mm, slightly longer
than sepals. Capsules are 4-7 mm, with awn-shaped beak. Climbing
Twisted-Lily is found in the Himalayas, from Garhwal to Assam, Burma,
China, W. Japan, at altitudes of 1500-2400 m.
Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: N Arun Kumar | Photographed at Tiger Hill, Darjeeling & West Sikkim. |
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