| Kathalekan Marsh Nut |
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| File size | 180369 |
| Original date | 3/16/13 4:12 PM |
| Resolution | 976 x 732 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Semecarpus kathalekanensis Family: Anacardiaceae (Cashew family)
Kathalekan Marsh Nut is a newly described (in the
year 2000), critically endangered, evergreen tree, up to 20 m tall.
Bark is smooth, greyish brown, mottled with numerous prominent warts,
blaze light brown. Branchlets are stout, smooth, hairless. Latex is
acrid, watery, turning black on exposure. Leaves are simple,
alternately, spirally arranged, carried on stalks 5-10 cm long. Leaves
are 45-100 cm long, 15-22 cm wide, largely oblong-lanceshaped or
obovate, tip obtusely and abruptly long-pointed, base wedge-shaped and
oblique, margin entire and wavy. Secondary nerves are about 20 pairs.
Flowers are borne in panicles in leaf axils, unisexual greenish. Male
inflorescence is 30-50 cm long, female inflorescence 5-15 cm long,
minutely rusty velvety. Fruit is compressed, obliquely kidney-shaped,
about 2 cm, 1-seeded. Kathalekan Marsh Nut is endemic to to the marshes
of Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Kathalekan, Karnataka. |
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