| Indo-China Alder |
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| File size | 1250467 |
| Original date | 3/10/17 1:12 PM |
| Resolution | 4608 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.2mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX P900 |
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Botanical name: Aporosa octandra var. octandra Family: Phyllanthaceae (Amla family)
Synonyms: Aporosa dioica, Aporosa frutescens, Alnus dioica
Synonyms: Aporosa dioica, Aporosa frutescens, Alnus dioica
Indo-China Alder is a small tree up to 9 m tall,
usually shrubby in secondary forest, about 2 m tall; branchlets hairy
to hairless. Stipules are ovate-lanceshaped, 4-6 mm; leaf-stalk 5-12
mm, sparsely velvet-hairy, tip bilateral with 2 glands; leaf blade
elliptic, narrowly ovate, oblong-elliptic, obovate, or
inverted-lanceshaped, 6-12 x 3.5-6 cm, leathery, hairless and lucid
above, sparsely velvet-hairy along nerves below, base rounded or
wedge-shaped, margin entire or sparsely shallowly toothed, tip rounded
to pointed. Male flowers are borne in leaf-axils in about 2.5 x 0.4 cm
spikes; sepals usually 4, oblong-ovate; stamens 2-4, longer than
sepals. Female spikes cylindrical, shorter than the male one. Sepals
are 4-6, triangular, margins fringed with hairs. Capsules are
ellipsoid, 1-1.3 cm, velvet-hairy, 2-seeded. Indo-China Alder is found
in the Himalayas to S. Central China and Indo-China, at altitudes of
200-1000 m.
Flowering: All year.
| Identification credit: M. Sawmliana | Photographed in Khawbung, Mizoram. |
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