| Leafless Dopatrium |
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| Original date | 1/12/15 12:44 PM |
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| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/640s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Dopatrium nudicaule Family: Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Synonyms: Gratiola aphylla, Gratiola cuneifolia, Gratiola nudicaulis
Synonyms: Gratiola aphylla, Gratiola cuneifolia, Gratiola nudicaulis
Leafless Dopatrium is an annual herb with stems often
fleshy, simple or sparingly branched, mostly hairless. Showy blue
flowers borne atop leafless stems. Calyx deeply 5-cut, sepals
overlapping. Flower are somewhat two-lipped; flower tube slender at the
base, dilated at the throat; upper lip shortly divided into two, lower
lip spreading, broadly 3-lobed. Stamens are 4, the 2 posterior fertile,
included, filaments thread-like, anther thecae parallel; anterior 2
reduced to staminodes, minute. Capsules are small, spherical,
splitting open. Leafless Dopatrium is found in Peninsular India, Sri
Lanka and Philippines. Flowering: November-July.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary. Nagapattinam distt., Tamil Nadu. |
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