| Multinerved Boeica |
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| File size | 210059 |
| Original date | 5/1/19 6:58 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 14.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Boeica multinervia Family: Gesneriaceae (Gloxinia family)
Multinerved Boeica is a perennial herbs with stems
6-14 cm, woolly. Leaf-stalks are 1.5-2.5 cm, woolly; leaf blade ovate
to obovate, 5.5-11 x 2.8-5.2 cm, above densely finely velvet-hairy,
below woolly, base oblique, wedge-shaped, margin sawtoothed, tip
pointed; lateral veins 14-16 on each side of midrib. Flowers are borne
in 10-20-flowered cymes, carried on flower-cluster-stalk 6-10 cm,
velvet-hairy; bracts 2, linear to obovate-oblong, 3-4 mm. Flower-stalks
are about 0.5 mm. Sepals are linear-lanceshaped, about 3 x 0.4 mm,
outside finely velvet-hairy, margin entire. Flowers are about 6 mm,
outside becoming hairless; tube not swollen, about 2.2 mm; upper lip
lobes about 1.6 mm; lower lip lobes narrowly ovate, about 2 mm. Style
unappendaged, about 8 mm, hairless. Multinerved Boeica is found in
Yunnan, China and Arunachal Pradesh. Flowering: April-May.
| Identification credit: Dipankar Borah | Photographed in Papum Pare distt., Arunachal Pradesh. |
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