| Hairy Burr-Bush |
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| File size | 466309 |
| Original date | 10/18/21 2:33 PM |
| Resolution | 3648 x 2736 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 3.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX A900 |
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Botanical name: Triumfetta pilosa Family: Tiliaceae (Falsa family)
Synonyms: Triumfetta microphylla, Triumfetta oblonga, Triumfetta polycarpa
Synonyms: Triumfetta microphylla, Triumfetta oblonga, Triumfetta polycarpa
Hairy Burr-Bush is a shrubby perennial herb, 1-1.5 m
tall, with branchlets yellow-brown hairy.
Flowers are borne in clusters in leaf-axils, pale yellow, densely
hairy. Flower buds aew hairy. Flower-stalks are 3-5 mm, bracts
lanceshaped, about 1 mm. Sepals are narrowly lanceshaped, 6-10 x 1-1.5
mm, hairy, tip hoodlike, tip appendage 0.5-1 mm. Petals are as long as
sepals. Stamens are 10.
Leaves are mostly ovate-lanceshaped, 3-15 cm long, 3-5 veined
from the base, densely silvery hairy, particularly on the underside,
tip pointed; base heart-shaped or rounded; margin coarsely sawtoothed.
Fruit is 1.5-2.7 cm in diameter including the
bristles or aculei. Aculei curled into hooks at the tip. Hairy
Burr-Bush is found in the Himalaya, at altitudes of up to 1700 m, in
South India, Indo-China, Africa.
| Identification credit: Vijay Ashruba Paithane, S. Kasim | Photographed in Churachandpur, Manipur, Bhandardara, Maharashtra & Wagaman, Kerala. |
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