| Light-Footed Lysionotus |
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| File size | 724468 |
| Original date | 8/16/21 6:58 PM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3888 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 5.9mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 5.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX B700 |
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Botanical name: Lysionotus levipes Family: Gesneriaceae (Gloxinia family)
Synonyms: Aeschynanthus levipes, Trichosporum levipes, Lysionotus angustisepalus
Synonyms: Aeschynanthus levipes, Trichosporum levipes, Lysionotus angustisepalus
Light-Footed Lysionotus is a tree-dwelling subshrub
with stems 30-60 cm. Flowers are light purple with darker veins, about
5 cm, outside sparsely finely velvet-hairy, inside below sparsely
finely velvet-hairy; tube slender funnel-shaped, about 3.6 x 0.9 cm;
upper lip about 3 mm; lower lip about 1.4 cm. Stamens are about 1.4 cm;
filaments about 1.2 cm, pistil about 3.2 cm, hairless. Sepal-cup is
5-parted from base; sepals 7.5-8.5 mm, outside finely velvet-hairy,
inside hairless. Flowers are borne singly, bracts apparently absent.
Flower-stalks are about 6 mm. Leaf-stalks are 0.5-1 mm; leaf blade
lanceshaped to narrowly so, 1.2-2.2 cm x 2.5-4 mm, leathery, densely
finely velvet-hairy, base wedge-shaped, margin sparsely finely toothed
or glandular, tip tapering to pointed; lateral veins obscure.
Light-Footed Lysionotus is found in NE India, Laos, N Myanmar, China,
at altitudes of 1200-2400 m. Flowering: August-September.
| Identification credit: Momang Taram | Photographed in Mishmi Hills, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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