| Nilgiri Emilia |
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| File size | 504500 |
| Original date | 5/27/15 11:27 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/800s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Emilia ramulosa Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Nilgiri Emilia is a a herbs with all leaves on stem,
3-5 x 0.6-1 cm, linear oblong, eared at base, hairless above, white
curled-hairy below, margins recurved. Flower-heads are borne solitary
or 2-3 together atop long flower-cluster-stalks 10-25 cm stall.
Flowers are homogamous. Involucre bracts are uniseriate, 0.8-1 cm long,
lanceshaped, curled hairy without. Florets are purple, tube 0.8-1 cm
long, widened at mouth, 5-lobed; lobes velvet-hairy at tips. Stamens 5,
linear, blunt at base. Style arms hairy at tips. Achenes 0.2-0.3 cm
long, 5-ribbed, rough on ribs. Pappus of soft slender white hairs,
0.5-0.6 cm long. Nilgiri Emilia is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu. |
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