| Hairy Morning Glory |
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| File size | 149606 |
| Original date | 8/29/14 4:29 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 9.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Argyreia hirsuta Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Synonyms: Rivea zeylanica Thwaites var. hirsuta
Synonyms: Rivea zeylanica Thwaites var. hirsuta
Hairy Morning Glory is a climbing undershrub, with
hairy stem. Leaves are 13-20 x 7-14 cm, broadly ovate, base
heart-shaped, tip abruptly tapering, densely bristly above,
velvet-hairy beneath, nerves 7-13 pairs, prominent below. Leaf-stalks
are 5-11 cm long, densely velvet-hairy. Flowers are borne in leaf
axils, in few to many flowered cymes, bracts leafy, up to 3 cm long,
lanceshaped, shortly stalked, persistent. Sepals are 6-8 x 2-3 mm,
oblong, obtuse, sparsely hairy, equal. Flowers are 5-7 cm long,
funnel-shaped, pale purple, hispid outside. Style is threadlike, stigma
2-globose. Berry is 8-12 mm across, depressed-globose, yellow. Seeds
are embedded in mealy pulp. Hairy Morning Glory is found in South India
and Sri Lanka. In India it is found in Kerala.
| Identification credit: Udayan Punakkal, Giby Kuriakose | Photographed at Abbey Falls, Coorg, Karnataka. |
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