| Hairy Melhania |
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| File size | 687497 |
| Original date | 1/18/15 3:24 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 18.0 |
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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: Melhania incana Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Hairy Melhania is a subshrub, with young parts
tawny velvet-hairy. Leaves are 3-5 x 1.5-2.5 cm, ovate, lanceshaped,
blunt at tip, slightly heart-shaped at base, minutely sawtoothed;
leaf-stalk 1-3 cm, velvet-hairy, stipules linear. Flowers are borne in
cymes in leaf-axils or at branch-ends, 1-4 flowered; bracteoles 3,
linear 7 mm; sepals slightly united, 7 mm, velvet-hairy; petals
obovate, yellow; stamens 5, staminodes 5, longer than stamens, 6 mm,
basally united; ovary 5-celled, style simple; stigma 5 partite. Capsule
loculicidal, 1 cm long, dehisce from tip to base and fused basally.
Hairy Melhania is found in South India and Australia.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Valliyur, Tirunelveli distt., Tamil Nadu. |
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