| Four-Stamen Mistletoe |
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| File size | 612710 |
| Original date | 7/22/14 2:10 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.28mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 3.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-HX9V |
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Botanical name: Helixanthera wallichiana Family: Loranthaceae (Mistletoe family)
Synonyms: Dendrophthoe wallichiana, Loranthus wallichianus
Synonyms: Dendrophthoe wallichiana, Loranthus wallichianus
Four-Stamen Mistletoe is a parasitic shrub, with round
branchlets, which are warty. Flower-stalks are 3 mm long, bract adenate
to the flower-stal, spoon-shaped, ciliate. Calyx is globose, 2 mm long,
limb annular, obscure. Flowers are reddish, cylindrical in bud, lobes
4, ovate, acute, hairless. Leaves are simple, alternate and opposite,
5-10 x 3-6 cm, ovate, blunt, base narrow or rounded hairless. Lateral
nerves are 2 or 3 pairs, leaf-stalks are 0.8-2 cm long. Flowers are
borne in slender hairless racemes up to 3-6 cm long. Berry is 6 mm
long, ovoid, rugose. Four-Stamen Mistletoe is found in Western Ghats.
Flowering: August-September.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Sakleshpur, Karnataka. |
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