| Night-Blooming Barleria |
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| Original date | 11/29/15 8:04 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/40s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Barleria noctiflora Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Barleria ramosa, Barleriacanthus noctiflora
Synonyms: Barleria ramosa, Barleriacanthus noctiflora
Night-Blooming Barleria is a small undershrub,
growing up to 3 ft, with stern much branched, young branches
velvet-hairy. Leaves are clustered, oblong or narrowly obovate. 10-18 x
3-5 rum, nearly stalkless, blunt or pointed, with a tiny point, whitish
velvet-hairy, later becoming hairless. Flowers are borne singly in leaf
axils, bracteolate spines are 6-18 mm long. spinulously branched. Outer
sepals are ovate, 13-18 7-10 mm, pointed, spiny-toothed, becoming
membranous, prominent nerved, nearly hairless. Flower tube is up to 4.5
cm long. narrow. velvet-hairy outside: petals of limb are broadly
obovte, up to 9 mm long. Capsule is up to 1.6 cm long. Night-Blooming
Barleria is a very rare plalnt, found in the scrub jungles in South
India and Sri Lanka. Flowering: December-February.
Medicinal uses:
Night-Blooming Barleria is
being widely used as Folk and ayurvedic medicine, e.g., in treatment of
diabetes.
Medicinal uses:
Night-Blooming Barleria is
being widely used as Folk and ayurvedic medicine, e.g., in treatment of
diabetes. | Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,