| Narrow-Petal Green Champa |
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| Original date | 4/7/11 12:23 PM |
| Resolution | 1240 x 930 |
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| Focal length | 5.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-S730 |
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Botanical name: Artabotrys suaveolens Family: Annonaceae (Sugar-apple family)
Synonyms: Unona suaveolens, Artabotrys parviflorus, Artabotrys rolfei
Synonyms: Unona suaveolens, Artabotrys parviflorus, Artabotrys rolfei
Narrow-Petal Green Champa is a woody climber with
fragrant flowers borne in hooked inflorescence. Leaves are
elliptic-ovate, papery, shortly tapering at tip, base pointed to
shortly narrowed, both surfaces shining, hairless. Inflorescence arise
extra-in leaf-axils, flower-cluster-stalk woody, hooked, thick, up to 3
cm long, 3-10 flowered. Flowers are creamy-white; petals fleshy,
fragrant, round or cylindrical, arranged in two whorls of 3 each,
similar, creamy white; outer petals minutely woolly, clawed, claws
round, free, hairless inside, limbs round, slender, tip blunt, slightly
incurved; inner petals similar to outer petals, claws united. Fruits
oblong to ellipsoid, stalkless. Narrow-Petal Green Champa is found in
Great Nicobar Island, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia,
Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Philippines, Moluccas, New Guinea.
Flowering: March-June.
Medicinal uses:
The decoction of leaves is
useful in cholera.
Medicinal uses:
The decoction of leaves is
useful in cholera. | Identification credit: Joju P. Alappatt | Photographed in Great Nicobar Island, Andaman & Nicobar. |
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