| Hornbeam Leaved Melochia |
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| Original date | 3/3/16 11:01 AM |
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| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 14.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
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Botanical name: Melochia nodiflora Family: Sterculiaceae (Cacao family)
Synonyms: Melochia carpinifolia, Melochia conglobata
Synonyms: Melochia carpinifolia, Melochia conglobata
Hornbeam Leaved Melochia is a shrub or undershrubs
with leaves alternate, broadly ovate or ovate-lanceshaped, heart-shaped
at base, sawtoothed at margin, tapering at tip, 3-16.5x 0.75-7 cm,
sparsely velvet-hairy on both surfaces; stipules lanceshaped,
velvet-hairy. Leaves are very much like those of Hornbeam trees.
Flowers are borne in a cluster of 3-15, in leaf-axils; bracts
ovate-lanceshaped, leaf-like. Sepals fused up to the basal half,
ovate-lanceshaped, tapering, 2-3 x 1-1.5 mm, sparsely velvet-hairy.
Petals spoon-shaped, 3-4 x 1.5-2 mm, white with purple nerves. Staminal
tube about 2.5 mm long; anthers extrorse. Ovary 3.5-4 mm long, bristly;
styles 5, free or slightly fused at base. Capsules subspherical,
longitudinally 5-grooved, bristly, reddish when young; seeds 3-gonous,
brown with a white spot at tip. Hornbeam Leaved Melochia is found in
South India. Flowering: November-December.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed at Kannamangalam village, Vellore distt., Tamil Nadu. |
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