| Narrow-Petal Pentasachme |
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| File size | 439122 |
| Original date | 9/10/23 12:03 PM |
| Resolution | 6000 x 4000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 200D II |
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Botanical name: Pentasacme caudatum Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Pentasacme championii, Spiladocorys angustifolia, Pentasachme caudatum
Synonyms: Pentasacme championii, Spiladocorys angustifolia, Pentasachme caudatum
Narrow-Petal Pentasachme is a herb up to 80 cm tall,
branched, hairless throughout. Leaf-stalks are 1-2 mm; leaf blade
linear-lanceshaped, 4-16 x 0.5-2 cm, midvein prominent on both sides,
lateral veins obsolete. Flowers are borne in nearly stalkless cymes,
much shorter than leaves, racemelike, 4-8-flowered. Flowers are white;
tube short; petals linear-lanceshaped, 0.6-1.5 cm x about 2 mm. Corona
lobes white, thick, margin finely toothed. Sepals are lanceshaped,
1.5-3 x about 1 mm. Flower-stalks are 0.3-2 cm. Seedpods are
cylindric-lanceshaped, 5-7.5 cm x about 3 mm. Narrow-Petal Pentasachme
is found along rivers and streams in forests, open woodland, bushlands,
at altitudes up to 1300 m, from the Himalayas to S. China and Peninsula
Malaysia. Flowering: April-October.
| Identification credit: Niku Das | Photographed in Tippi, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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