| Four-Stamen Gomphandra |
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| File size | 191313 |
| Original date | 9/13/15 9:51 AM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Gomphandra tetrandra Family: Icacinaceae (Unicorn Plant family)
Synonyms: Gomphandra cambodiana, Gomphandra pauciflora
Synonyms: Gomphandra cambodiana, Gomphandra pauciflora
Four-Stamen Gomphandra is a shrub or small tree up
to 2-5 m tall. Young branchlets are round, finely velvet-hairy. Leaves
are simple, alternate, distichous; leaf-stalk 0.7-1.2 cm long,
hairless, channeled; blade 8-15.5 x 1.5-6 cm, variable in shape oblong
to elliptic-oblong, bluntly narrow tapering to caudate-tapering, base
pointed to slightly rounded, margin entire, membranous to chartaceous,
hairless; midrib channeled above; secondary nerves 5-6 pairs, looped;
tertiary nerves obscure. Flowers are white, borne in short cymes in
leaf-axils. Flower-cluster-stalk is 1 cm long. Flowers 3-10 together;
calyx 1 mm long, cup-shaped; flower 6 mm long, lobes cuspidate;
filaments 8 mm long, fused. Fruit is up to 13 x 6 mm, cylindric-oblong;
seeds 1. Four-Stamen Gomphandra is found in S and SE Asia, and China.
| Identification credit: Robi Jose | Photographed in Thattekad Bird Sanctuary, Kerala. |
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