| Nilgiri Long-Flowered Lily |
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| File size | 662747 |
| Original date | 9/18/16 12:02 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 320.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 80D |
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Botanical name: Lilium wallichianum var. neilgherrense Family: Liliaceae (Lily family)
Synonyms: Lilium longiflorum var. neilgherrense, Lilium neilgherrense Wight
Synonyms: Lilium longiflorum var. neilgherrense, Lilium neilgherrense Wight
Nilgiri Long-Flowered Lily is an erect unbranched
herb, with leafy stem up to 1.5 cm tall. Leaves are scattered, up to 10
x 2 cm, lanceshaped, stalkless, pointed at tip, hairless. Flowers are
borne 1-3 together, at branch-ends; flower-stalk 3 cm long, hairless.
Flowers are prominently long, 20 cm long, bell-shaped, petals 6, ovate,
pointed, white, lower tubular. Stamens are 6, filaments 16 cm long,
free; anthers linear-oblong, versatile; ovary oblong; ovules many;
style to 16 cm long constricted at base; stigma spherical or 3-toothed.
Capsule is 3-valved; seeds many, compressed. Nilgiri Long-Flowered Lily
is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: N. Arun Kumar | Photographed in Kodaikanal,Tamil Nadu. |
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