| Intermediate Ceropegia |
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| File size | 253928 |
| Original date | 4/9/18 5:47 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 14.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Ceropegia intermedia Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Ceropegia candelabrum Thw., Ceropegia tuberosa Wall.
Synonyms: Ceropegia candelabrum Thw., Ceropegia tuberosa Wall.
Intermediate Ceropegia is a hairless twiner with
leaves up to 10 x 2 cm, lanceshaped, pointed to tapering, base rounded
or pointed; nerves 3-4 pairs; leaf-stalk 1-1.7 cm long. Flowers are
purple, up to 3 x 1 cm, few to many together, in racemes in leaf-axils.
Flower-stalks are 1.5 cm long; sepals 4 x 0.6 mm, linear; flower tube 2
cm long, prominently dialated at base, narrow above; petals 10 x 3 mm,
ovate, velvet-hairy inside; gynostegium 4 x 0.9 mm; outer corona
shallowly lobed, lobes blunt; inner corona lobes spoon-shaped, fused
above. Intermediate Ceropegia is endemic to Peninsular India.
Flowering: June-December.
| Identification credit: Sushant More | Photographed in Kerala. |
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