| Colombian Waxweed |
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| File size | 131398 |
| Original date | 3/6/08 12:05 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.33mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-T20 |
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Botanical name: Cuphea carthagenensis Family: Lythraceae (Crape Myrtle family)
Synonyms: Cuphea pinto, Cuphea divaricata, Cuphea balsamona
Synonyms: Cuphea pinto, Cuphea divaricata, Cuphea balsamona
Colombian Waxweed is an erect or spreading herb up
to a foot tall, glandular-velvet-hairy and bristly. Leaves are
opposite, blade ovate to elliptic, 1.0-5.5 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide, both
surfaces rough; nearly stalkless to shortly stalked. Flowers are small,
borne in short monochasial cymes or sometimes solitary in the axils of
the leaves. Hypanthium is 4.5-5.5 mm long, 11-veined, shortly spurred
at the base. Sepals are 6, 0.5 mm long. Petals 6, obovate, 1.5-2 mm
long, violet to purple. Stamens are 11, not protruding out. Capsule is
spherical, about 2 mm diam.; seeds 4-8, brown, discoid. is a native of
C & S America, naturalized in parts of India.
| Identification credit: Ritesh Choudhary, J.M. Garg | Photographed in Manipur & Arunachal Pradesh. |
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