| Many-Flowered Swan Flower |
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| File size | 177860 |
| Original date | 6/22/17 8:29 AM |
| Resolution | 4608 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 22.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/4000s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
| Focus Distance | 0.0m |
| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | FinePix HS35EXR |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Globba multiflora Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Synonyms: Globba rubromaculata, Globba velutina
Synonyms: Globba rubromaculata, Globba velutina
Many-Flowered Swan Flower is a herb with leafy
shoots up to 2 ft tall. Leaves are lanceshaped, prominently with a
tail, stalkless, 20-30 x 3-6 cm, velvet-hairy beneath; ligule bilobed,
1-2 mm, velvet-hairy. (flowers not clustered); cincinnus stalks 1cm or
much less; bracteoles minute, soon deciduous.
Yellow flowers are borne in panicle 15-30 cm long, with rachis and
branchlets velvet-hairy, bracts small, soon falling off, those at base
of inflorescence, producing bulbils, those from upper part subtending
cincinni of 4-6 yellow flowers. Flowers are not crowded at the
branchlet tips. Calyx is 3-lobed, 3-4mm. Flower tube is 3 times the
length of calyx, petals ovate, 3mm. Lateral staminodes 3-4mm; lip
similar, shortly bilobed. Stamen about 1.5 cm. Capsule is hairless.
Many-Flowered Swan Flower is found in Eastern Himalayas, in Sikkim,
Assam.
| Identification credit: Nidhan Singh, M. Sabu | Photographed in Vishwanath Distt, Assam. |
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