| Few-Flowered Swallow-Wort |
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| File size | 343417 |
| Original date | 12/28/14 9:37 AM |
| Resolution | 4000 x 3000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Vincetoxicum bracteatum Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Tylophora pauciflora, Cynanchum bracteatum, Tylophora parviflora
Synonyms: Tylophora pauciflora, Cynanchum bracteatum, Tylophora parviflora
Few-Flowered Swallow-Wort is a slender vine with stem
long-twining, hairless. Leaves are opposite, 3.5-7 x 2-4 cm, ovate,
flat or very shallowly heart-shaped at the base, pointed and apiculate
at the tip, very thin, hairless on both sides; leaf-stalk 1-2.5 cm
long. Flowers are borne in cymes laxly branched, rather few-flowered,
hairless, shorter to longer than the leaves, with a
flower-cluster-stalk usually exceeding the leaf-stalks. Sepal-cup-lobes
1.5-2 mm long, broadly ovate, hairless. Flower are greenish white with
the centre dark purplish-brown; 0.6-0.7 cm in diameter, the lobes
longer than the radius of the united portion. Follicles are cylindric,
about 5 cm long. Few-Flowered Swallow-Wort is native to India and Sri
Lanka.
| Identification credit: Dinesh Valke | Photographed at Agumbe, Karnataka. |
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