| Oval Leaf Gardneria |
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| File size | 624250 |
| Original date | 5/27/15 12:32 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Gardneria ovata Family: Loganiaceae (Logania family)
Synonyms: Gardneria wallichii
Synonyms: Gardneria wallichii
Oval Leaf Gardneria is a climbing shrub, to 5 m,
hairless except for petals. Branches are gray-brown, round. Leaf-stalk
is 1-1.5 cm, leaf blade ovate, narrowly ovate, or elliptic, 8-16 x 3-8
cm, thinly leathery, base broadly wedge-shaped and sometimes narrowing
into a wing, tip blunt to pointed, lateral veins 6-8 pairs. Flowers are
borne in 3-7-flowered stalked cymes, sometimes grouped along branches
in leaf-axils, into conical thyrses. Flower-cluster-stalk is 2-4 cm.
Flowers are 4-merous, flower-stalk 0.5-2 cm, 2-bracteolate. Sepals are
round, 1.5-2 mm in diameter, fringed with hairs. Flower are yellow to
orange, waxy, tube 1-1.5 mm, petals narrowly ovate, 4-5 mm, thick,
fleshy, inside papillose-velvet-hairy. Berries are 7-8 mm in diameter,
1- or 2-seeded. Seeds dull gray, round, about 5 mm in diameter, smooth.
Flowering: March-June.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. |
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