| Golden-Tip Rock-Grass |
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| File size | 352894 |
| Original date | 7/17/21 12:01 PM |
| Resolution | 6000 x 4000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 48.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 5.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Polycarpaea aurea Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Golden-Tip Rock-Grass is an annual erect herbs, up to
30 cm high, sometimes shorter, much branched and woody; with slender
branches beaing gloden yellow flowers at the tip. Leaves are opposite,
rarely pseudowhorled, stalkless, linear, blunt at base, entire at
margin, with a short sharp point at tip, 10-50 x 1-2 mm, hairless.
Flowers are borne in irregular lax cymes. Flowers are about 3 mm long,
with 5 free, oblong-obovate, blunt petals, about 1.2 x 0.5 mm, partly
enclosing capsule, shining, brown. Stamens are 5, forming a cup of
about 0.2 mm high at base with petals and encircling ovary. Sepals are
5, free, ovate-lanceshaped, entire, pointed, about 2 x 0.8 mm,
exceeding petals and capsules, scarious, reddish brown. Capsules are
ovoid-elliptic, about 1.2 x 1 mm, 3-valved. Golden-Tip Rock-Grass is
found in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala,
Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: N Arun Kumar | Photographed in Bellary, Karnataka. |
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