| Gelonium Poison-Leaf |
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| File size | 470905 |
| Original date | 2/20/12 4:15 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| 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: Dichapetalum gelonioides Family: Dichapetalaceae (Poison-Leaf family)
Synonyms: Chailletia gelonioides, Chailletia gelonioides, Dichapetalum kerrii
Synonyms: Chailletia gelonioides, Chailletia gelonioides, Dichapetalum kerrii
Gelonium Poison-Leaf is a large shrub or small
tree, up to 5 m tall. Branchlets are slender, round, velvet-hairy.
Leaves are simple, alternate, distichous. Stipules are
linear-lanceshaped, up to 0.5 cm long. Leaf-stalks are 0.1-0.4 cm long,
velvet-hairy. Leaves are 5-11.5 x 2-4 cm, elliptic, tip bluntly
tapering with mucronate tip, base narrow, margin entire, papery,
sparsely velvet-hairy on midrib and nerves beneath. Midrib is raised
above, secondary nerves 5-6 gradually curved. Flowers are borne in
fascicled cymes in leaf axils. They are small, creamy-white. Fruit is
1-2 lobed, velvety, 2-seeded. Gelonium Poison-Leaf is found in the
forests of Indomalaysia, Western Ghats, South and Central Sahyadris,
up to 1400 m.
Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar
| Photographed at Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary, Goa. |