| Melastome Canscora |
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| Original date | 12/26/18 7:27 AM |
| Resolution | 1520 x 1140 |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/40s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 700D |
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Botanical name: Canscora andrographioides Family: Gentianaceae (Gentian family)
Synonyms: Canscora trinervia, Canscora melastomacea
Synonyms: Canscora trinervia, Canscora melastomacea
Melastome Canscora is an annual herb, 20-40 cm tall,
hairless. Stems are erect, much branched, obscurely 4-angled. Leaves
are stalkless, ovate-lanceshaped to elliptic, 1-5 x 0.5-2.5 cm, base
wedge-shaped to rounded, tip pointed; veins 3-5, slender. Flowers are
4-merous, borne in cymes. Calyx is tubular; tube 0.9-1.1 cm,
membranous, sepals narrowly triangular, 3-4 mm, tip pointed, veins 3
and prominent. Flowers are white to purple, tubular, 1.4-1.8 cm; two
petals are broadly elliptic, two others are oblong-spoon-shaped, 4.5-5
mm, margin entire, tip blunt. Fertile stamens 1; filaments thread-like,
2-2.5 mm; anthers ellipsoid, 1-1.2 mm. Style is thread-like, 8.5-10 mm;
stigma lobes oblong. Capsules are ellipsoid, 7-8 mm. Melastome Canscora
is a weed in cultivated land, valleys, forests, at altitudes of
200-1400 m, in China, Cambodia, NE India, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand,
Vietnam. Flowering: September-October.
| Identification credit: Hussain Barbhuiya, Saroj Kasaju | Photographed in Cherapunjee, Meghalaya. |
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