| Few-Flowered Watermilfoil |
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| File size | 455371 |
| Original date | 10/25/15 12:57 PM |
| Resolution | 1700 x 1275 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
| Focus Distance | 0.0m |
| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 600D |
| Sensor type | Undefined |
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Botanical name: Myriophyllum oliganthum Family: Haloragaceae (Watermilfoil family)
Synonyms: Haloragis oligantha
Synonyms: Haloragis oligantha
Few-Flowered Watermilfoil is a submerged or
floating aquatic herb, with branchlets hairless. Leaves are linear.
1.5-3 x 0.05 cm; upper leaves usually alternate or decussate. margin
entire to sawtoothed; lower ones in whorls. pinnatifid, label
threadlike. Flowers are yellow or red. bisexual or monoecious in in
leaf-axils clusters. Bracteoles subulate, 1.5 mm, scarious;
flower-stalk to 1.5 mm. Male flowers are 2.5 x 4 mm. Sepals linear.
Petals rose, 2 mm. Stamens 4, filaments to 0.5 mm. Pistillodes 4.
short. Bisexual flowers are 1.5 x 2 mm. Calyx adnate to ovary: lobes 4.
rudimentary. Punts 4. yellow. inverted-lanceshaped. 2 mm. Stamens 4;
filaments (inform. to I mm. Ovary I mm. styles 4. short. stigma
plumose. Drupe of 4 mericarps. rug., tuberculate; seed I per mericap.
Few-Flowered Watermilfoil is a very rare plant, found in Eastern and
Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma, Tapas Chakrabarty, Shrikant Ingalhalikar | Photographed in Savandurga, Karnataka. |
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