| Cone-Bearing Swan Flower |
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| Original date | 8/27/16 11:23 AM |
| Resolution | 888 x 666 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 194.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 9.0 |
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| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 600D |
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Botanical name: Globba marantina Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Synonyms: Globba bracteosa
Synonyms: Globba bracteosa
Cone-Bearing Swan Flower is an erect rhizome forming
herbs, with slender stem up to 50 cm tall, usually solitary.
It is named after Itanlian botanist Bartolomeo Maranti (1500-1571).
Leaves are bifarious, to 20 x 5 cm, oblong-lanceshaped, pointed at tip,
stalkless, hairless. Flowers are borne in spikes at branch-ends, up to
10 cm long, often with bulbils towards the base. Bracts are 1-2 cm
long, broadly ovate, greenish; bracteoles 1 cm long, ovate. Flowers are
single formed in each bract. Calyx is 5 mm long, funnel shaped,
3-lobed. Flowers are 1.4 cm long, tube slender, petals short, yellow;
lip as long as the flower, deeply 2-lobed, yellow; stamen 1, anthers
broadly winged; lateral staminodes oblong; ovary 1-celled; ovules many
on 3-parietal placentas; style 1, slender; stigma top-shaped. Capsule 1
x 6 mm, oblong, hairless, coarsely rugose. Cone-Bearing Swan Flower is
found in Indo-Malesia. In India it is found in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith | Photographed in Mudumalai reserve forest, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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