| Node Flower Allmania |
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| File size | 164870 |
| Original date | 9/13/09 7:54 AM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash fired, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL |
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Botanical name: Allmania nodiflora Family: Amaranthaceae (Amaranth family)
Synonyms: Celosia nodiflora, Chamissoa albida
Synonyms: Celosia nodiflora, Chamissoa albida
Node Flower Allmania is an annual herb, erect or rising, 10-50 cm tall.
Stem is branched from or near base. Petiole 2-10 mm; Leaves are obovate,
oblong, or linear, 1.5-6.5 mm long, 0.3-2.5 cm wide, carried on 2-10 mm
long stalks. Flower-heads are globose, becoming somewhat elongated, with
3-7-flowered cymes. Flowers can be greenish or orange-red. Bracts and
bracteoles are ovate-lanceolate, 3-5 mm, white on margin and with green or
purple midvein, apex long acuminate. Tepals obliquely spreading at
opening, later erect, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 4-5 mm.
Fruits are enclosed in persistent perianth, pale green, ovoid, 3-3.5 mm in
diameter, opening by lid. Seeds are 1.5-2 mm in diam. Flowerig: May-June.
| Identification credit: N.S. Dungriyal, Santhosh Kumar | Photographed in Keesaragutta, Andhra Pradesh & Puducherry. |
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