| Khasi Leptodermis |
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| File size | 516327 |
| Original date | 6/21/17 10:18 AM |
| Resolution | 1900 x 1425 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX P900 |
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Botanical name: Leptodermis griffithii Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Khasi Leptodermis is a small rigid bush with branches
stout, branchlets slender, flaky. Flowers are white, 8 mm long, often
with purplish throat. Sepal-cup-teeth are nearly hairless, lanceshaped.
Leaves are 1.2-3.7 cm, elliptic-lanceshaped pointed narrowed into the
leaf-stalk smooth or rough above, brown when dry, nerves 2-3 pair,
hairless or nearly so beneath. Stipules are small appressed. Capsule
ovoid, 4 mm long, brown. Seed enclosed in a netveined fibrous coat.
Khasi Leptodermis is found in East Himalaya, NE India, at altitudes of
1000-1700 m. Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: K.L. Chaudhary | Photographed in East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,