| Eared-Leaf Diamond Flower |
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| File size | 393833 |
| Original date | 10/19/17 12:18 PM |
| Resolution | 1600 x 1200 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Exallage auricularia Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Hedyotis auricularia, Oldenlandia auricularia
Synonyms: Hedyotis auricularia, Oldenlandia auricularia
Eared-Leaf Diamond Flower is a spreading to trailing
herb with stem 4-angled, bluish, hairy when young. Leaves are 2-7 x
1-2.5 cm, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-lanceshaped, base rounded or
wedge-shaped, tip shortly tapering, lateral nerves 4 or 5 pairs,
hairless; stipules broadly ovate, pectinate on margins, fused with the
leaf-stalk. Flowers are fascicled in leaf axils; flower-stalks about 1
mm long. Calyx tube about 1 mm long, 4-lobed. Flower are white,
bell-shaped; tube about 1 mm long; petals 4, curled back, hairy at
throat. Stamens are 4, not protruding. Capsules are about 2 mm across,
spherical, velvet-hairy, not splitting. Seeds are many, black,
3-angled. Eared-Leaf Diamond Flower is found in the Himalayas, from
Nepal to NE India, Burma, east to S. China, Malaysia, Australia, at
altitudes of 900-1700 m. It is also found in Western Ghats and Sri
Lanka. Flowering: September-December.
Medicinal uses:
Herb is used in diarrhoea,
dysentery and cough. Boiled extract of plant is prescribed in jaundice.
Medicinal uses:
Herb is used in diarrhoea,
dysentery and cough. Boiled extract of plant is prescribed in jaundice.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Athani, Ernakulam distt., Kerala. |
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