| Nilgiri Medinilla |
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| File size | 673247 |
| Original date | 4/8/11 9:46 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D40 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Medinilla beddomei Family: Melastomataceae (Melastome family)
Synonyms: Medinilla radicans, Triplectrum radicans
Synonyms: Medinilla radicans, Triplectrum radicans
Nilgiri Medinilla is a small shrub dwelling on trees
and rocks, with branches round, drooping. Leaves are round, 2.5 cm
across, blunt at base and tip, very fleshy, ribs indistinct; leaf-stalk
5 mm long. Flowers are borne in cymes in leaf-axils, 1-3 flowered;
flower-stalks 2 cm long, hairless. Flowers are white; sepal tube 7 mm
long, wavy along the rim; petals white, 1.5 x 1.2 cm, obovate,
spreading; stamens 10, anthers 8 mm long, tapering, spur at the base of
the anther, 1.5 mm long, curved up. Nilgiri Medinilla is endemic to
Southern Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. |
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