| Kerala Cobra Lily |
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| Original date | 6/23/16 10:19 AM |
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| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Arisaema leschenaultii Family: Araceae (Arum family)
Synonyms: Arisaema pulchrum, Arisaema longicaudatum
Synonyms: Arisaema pulchrum, Arisaema longicaudatum
Kerala Cobra Lily is a beautiful perennial
herb with corm 1-6 cm across. Leaves are digitately compound, with 7-12
leaflets, each 15-25 x 5-7 cm, lanceshaped, tip tapering; nerves many,
close, parallel, forming an intramarginal vein, prominent, hairless.
Leaf-stalk is up to 70 cm long, 1-3 cm thick, brownish.
Flower-cluster-stalk is thick, smaller than the leaf-stalk. Spathe, or
the "hood" of the cobra, is 10-22 cm long, tube 5-15 cm long, 1-3.5 cm
broad, with thick greenish brown streaks; limb ovate, tip curved down,
finely tapering, green with brown streaks. Spadix is 11-15 cm long,
club-shaped at tip, female flowers many in lower 1-3 cm long; neuter
flowers thread-like, simple or bifurcate, to 1 cm long. Kerala
Cobra Lily is endemic to Southern Western Ghats. Flowering:
July-September.
| Identification credit: Manudev K. Madhavan | Photographed at Chikamagalur, Karnataka, |
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