| Mountain Foldwing |
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| File size | 139676 |
| Original date | 10/26/09 10:11 PM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 10.29mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. |
| Camera model | SP590UZ |
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Botanical name: Dicliptera baphica Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Dicliptera manilalii, Peristrophe montana, Justicia rubra
Synonyms: Dicliptera manilalii, Peristrophe montana, Justicia rubra
Mountain Foldwing is an erect shrub, with round stem
and pin flowers. Sepals are 5, 4 mm long, linear, united below the
middle. Flower tube is 3 cm long, slender, 2-lipped above; lower lip
3-lobed, upper 1.5 mm long, round, notched; stamens 2, filaments hairy,
attached at the throat of flower tube; anthers linear, curved, ovary
hairless, style thread-like, stigma 2-lobed. Flowers borne in cymes in
leaf-axils and at branch-ends, trichotomous; bracts 2, opposite, 2.5 x
1.5 cm, ovate, blunt; bracteoles 6 mm long, linear. Leaves are 12-17 x
3-6 cm, ovate, tip tapering, hairless, nerves 7 pairs; leaf-stalk to 6
cm long. Capsule is 1.3 cm long, woolly with a stipe. Mountain
Foldwing is found in peninsular India, Sri Lanka, Andamans and
Nicobars, and parts of China.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala & Siruvani, Tamil Nadu. |
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