| Heart-Leaf Coneflower |
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| File size | 162065 |
| Original date | 12/8/17 12:12 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 4.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1688s |
| Aperture | 2.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | samsung |
| Camera model | SM-G900H |
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Botanical name: Strobilanthes cordifolia Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Stenosiphonium cordifolium, Ruellia cordifolia
Synonyms: Stenosiphonium cordifolium, Ruellia cordifolia
Heart-Leaf Coneflower is a shrub with branchlets
sticky, bearing blue swollen tubular flowers. Leaves are
ovate-lanceshaped, up to 12 x 6 cm, base narrowed, margin rounded
toothed, tip pointed (much smaller on flowering shoots above);
leaf-stalks up to 6 cm. Flower spikes arise at branch-ends,
interrupted, up to 10 cm, flower clusters up to 1 cm apart below,
closer above; bracts oblong-ovate, 3-ribbed, to 6 x 3 mm; bracteoles
lanceshaped, to 5 x 2 mm. Sepals are 5, nearly equal, parted above the
middle of the tube, up to 8 mm. Flowers are blue, narrowly tubular
below, swollen above, obscurely 2-lipped, 1.5 cm wide; petals 2+3,
nearly equal. Stamens are 2+2, didynamous, attached above the middle of
the tube, protruding. Ovules are 8; style slender; stigma curved; seeds
8, with silky hairs around. Heart-Leaf Coneflower is found in
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Flowering: December-February.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Kotagiri, Distt. Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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