| Narrow-Leaf Blushwort |
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| File size | 978282 |
| Original date | 8/16/21 7:48 AM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3888 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 125.4mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX B700 |
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Botanical name: Aeschynanthus angustioblongus Family: Gesneriaceae (Gloxinia family)
Narrow-Leaf Blushwort is a herb with stems 12-30 cm,
hairless. Leaves are opposite; leaf-stalk 2-5 mm; leaf blade narrowly
oblong to oblong lanceshaped or narrowly elliptic, 3-5.4 x 1-1.5 cm,
papery, hairless, base narrowed, margin entire, tip narrowed; lateral
veins indistinct. Flowers are borne in cymes in leaf-axils, 1-flowered;
flower-cluster-stalk absent; bracts deciduous. Flower-stalks are 1-2.2
cm, hairless. Sepal-cup is green, 5-sect from base; segments narrowly
lanceshaped, 0.9-1.1 cm x 1.6-2.1 mm, outside hairless. Flowers are
red, about 2.8 cm, outside finely velvet-hairy, inside hairless, mouth
not oblique; limb indistinctly 2-lipped, lips equal, about 2.5 mm.
Stamens are protruding; filaments about 1.2 cm; anthers coherent in
pairs at tip, 1.2-2 mm. Pistil about 3.2 cm; style less than 16 mm.
Narrow-Leaf Blushwort is found growing on trees in forested valleys,
altitudes of about 1500 m, from Arunachal Pradesh to China . Flowering:
August-September.
| Identification credit: Momang Taram | Photographed in Arunachal Pradesh. |
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