| East-Indian Mycetia |
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| File size | 644197 |
| Original date | 4/28/18 8:40 AM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3888 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 17.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 5.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX B700 |
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Botanical name: Mycetia mukerjiana Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
East-Indian Mycetia is a shrub, up to 1.5 m tall, with
stems slender, whitish. Leaves are simple, perpendicular opposite
pairs. Leaf-stalks are about 2-3 cm long, bluntly tapering; blade about
5-25 x 1.5-6 cm, obovate to inverted-lanceshaped, narrowed at base,
tapering at tip, entire, membranous, hairless. Flowers are white or
pale-yellow in leaf-axils, in about 1.5-2 cm long cymes, carried on
slender flower-cluster-stalks. Bracts are ovate-lanceshaped, about 3 x
1 mm, tapering. Flower-stalks are about 2.5 mm long; bracteoles
leaf-like, oblong-lanceshaped, about 0.5 x 0.2 cm; sepals ovate, about
3 x 2 mm, tapering; flower-tube about 1.2 cm long; limbs ovate to
ovate-oblong, about 2 x 0.5 mm, pointed; styles thread-like,
velvet-hairy, about 1 cm. Berries are hemispheric. Seeds angular,
minute. East-Indian Mycetia is native to NE India and Bangladesh.
Flowering: August-December.
| Identification credit: Momang Taram | Photographed in Papum Pare distt., Arunachal Pradesh. |
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