| Hairy Jatropha |
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| File size | 435300 |
| Original date | 7/11/16 12:15 PM |
| Resolution | 1600 x 1200 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/2000s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Jatropha villosa Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Synonyms: Jatropha peltata Wight [illeg.], Jatropha villosa ramnadensis, Jatropha wightiana
Synonyms: Jatropha peltata Wight [illeg.], Jatropha villosa ramnadensis, Jatropha wightiana
Hairy Jatropha is a white woolly undershrub with
leaves up to 10 x 11 cm, broadly ovate, round, palmately lobed. Lobes
are shallow, linear, basally 3-5 nerved, puberulus above, densely white
woolly below. Flowers are borne in cymes at branch-ends, up to 5 cm;
bracts 3 mm, linear, velvet-hairy. Sepal tube is 1 mm, sepals 5 mm,
oblong, overlapping, velvet-hairy. Flower tube is 4 mm, petals 5 mm,
oblong, velvet-hairy; stamens 7-8, filaments fused, 3 mm, branched
above, anthers 2 mm, oblong; disc of 5 glands, 0.5 mm, oblong. Hairy
Jatropha is endemic to Peninsular India. Flowering: December-April.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Thirumoorthi Hills, Udumalpettai, Tamil Nadu. |
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