| Long-Flowered Gomphostemma |
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| File size | 557757 |
| Original date | 2/22/17 12:39 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 70D |
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Botanical name: Gomphostemma eriocarpum Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Gomphostemma oblongum Wight [Illeg.]
Synonyms: Gomphostemma oblongum Wight [Illeg.]
Long-Flowered Gomphostemma is a slender, erect,
perennial herbs up to 75 cm tall. Leaves elliptic-oblong or
inverted-lanceshaped, base pointed, margin sharply toothed, tip
tapering, up to 15 cm long and 5cm broad, rough above; leaf-stalks up
to 2.5 cm long. Cymes of the whorls stalkless. Flowers are light
yellow, bracts lanceshaped, shorter than calyx. Calyx-teeth ribbed,
linear-lanceshaped, about 1.25 cm long. Flowers are about 3.7 cm long,
velvet-hairy, flower-tube protruding, up to 4 mm long, very slender.
Fruits are nutlets, hairy, spherical. Long-Flowered Gomphostemma is
found in Western and Eastern Ghats. Flowering: August-December.
| Identification credit: C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. |
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