| Nilgiri Isodon |
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| File size | 387018 |
| Original date | 12/10/22 10:57 PM |
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| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 32.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5600 |
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Botanical name: Isodon nilgherricus Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Plectranthus nilgherricus, Rabdosia nilgherrica, Plectranthus bullatus
Synonyms: Plectranthus nilgherricus, Rabdosia nilgherrica, Plectranthus bullatus
Nilgiri Isodon is a glandular hairy shrub. Leaves are
5-10 x 3-6 cm, tip pointed or tapering, base rounded or heart-shaped,
sawtoothed; upper ones stalkless, tapering, densely hairy below, nerves
4 pairs; leaf-stalk 3-5 cm long. Flowers are borne in panicle 20-30 cm
long. Flowers are 3-5 together, stalked. Flowers are 7 mm long, white
with red dots, glandular, lobes fringed with hairs, midlobe larger than
sidelobes; filaments hairless. Sepal-cup is 3.5-4 mm long, strongly
ribbed, subequally 5-lobed, hirtus. Nilgiri Isodon is endemic to
Southern Western Ghats. Flowering: October-February.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. |
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