| Large-Flowered Cryptolepis |
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| File size | 508287 |
| Original date | 12/25/15 5:45 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Cryptolepis grandiflora Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Cryptolepis wightiana
Synonyms: Cryptolepis wightiana
Large-Flowered Cryptolepis is a tall hairless twiner.
Leaves are up to 8 x 3.6 cm, elliptic-oblong, base pointed to flat, tip
pointed, lateral nerves 8-14 pairs, closely parallel, hairless or
slightly velvet-hairy; leaf-stalk up to 1 cm. Flowers arise at
branch-ends, in 3-5-flowered cymes; flower-cluster-stalk up to 4 cm
long. Bracts fal off. Sepals are 5, 1-1.5 x about 0.4 cm,
ovate-lanceshaped, margin recurved. Flowers are cream, turning yellow,
about 2-3 cm across, funnel-shaped; tube 3-3.5 cm long; lobes 5,
broadly obovate, twisted to right in bud. Stamens 5, connivent around
stigma. Corona of 5, fleshy scales alternating with flower lobes. Ovary
oblong; style to 4 mm; stigma conic. Flowering: November-January.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. |
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