| Long-Flower Blue Barleria |
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| File size | 557040 |
| Original date | 10/25/15 8:17 AM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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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: Barleria acuminata Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Barleria tomentosa var. acuminata
Synonyms: Barleria tomentosa var. acuminata
Long-Flower Barleria is a s subshrub with
branchlets velvet-hairy. Leaves are up to 4-5 x 2.5-3 cm, ovate-round,
tip pointed, apiculate, base rounded, woolly; leaf-stalk to 3.5 cm,
velvet-hairy. Racemes in leaf-axils and at branch-ends; bracts 1.3 cm
long, lanceshaped, glandular, velvet-hairy, pointed; outer sepals
larger, 13 x 2 mm; inner smaller to 6 x 2 mm, lanceshaped,
velvet-hairy. Flower tube is very long, up to 3 cm, petals 1 cm,
obovate, blunt, overlapping; filaments 7 mm; ovary 3 mm, ovoid, style
3.5 cm long, hairy at the base. Long-Flower Barleria is endemic to
Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma, Gurumurthi Hegde | Photographed in Savandurga, Karnataka. |
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