| Deccan Little Cucumber |
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| File size | 458708 |
| Original date | 8/15/13 9:42 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 10.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/40s |
| Aperture | 3.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX P100 |
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Botanical name: Cucumis ritchiei Family: Cucurbitaceae (Pumpkin family)
Synonyms: Dicoelospermum ritchiei
Synonyms: Dicoelospermum ritchiei
Deccan Little Cucumber is a prostrate or climbing, hairy
herb. Leaves are alternate, 2-4 x 2-4 cm, simple, ovate or round,
toothed, bristly, heart-shaped at base, faintly lobed, lobes 3-5, blunt
at lobe ends, leaf-stalks 2-5 cm long, tendrils slender. Male flowers
are clustered on 2-5 mm long, flower-stalks 0.5-1.5 cm long
flower-cluster-stalks. Sepal tube 3 x 2 mm, bristly outside, green.
Flower up to 6 mm long, yellow, velvet-hairy outside, petals spreading.
Stamens 3, 2 with two-loculed anther and 1 with one loculed anther,
included, arising from the base of the flower. Female flowers arise
solitary, flower-stalks up to 3 cm long. Sepal tube 3-4 x 2-3 mm,
bristly outside, sepals 5, 2-3 mm long, linear green. Flower up to 1 x
0.5 cm, yellow, bristly outside, petals spreading. Fruits are
about 6 mm in diameter. Deccan Little Cucumber is endemic to
Peninsular India. Flowering: June-December.
| Identification credit: Sushant More | Photographed in Matheran & Belgaum. |
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