| Ovate-Leaf Snake-Needle Grass |
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| Original date | 8/20/12 12:35 PM |
| Resolution | 2180 x 1635 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 3.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A495 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Debia ovatifolia Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Hedyotis ovatifolia, Hedyotis ovatifolia, Hedyotis nudicaulis
Synonyms: Hedyotis ovatifolia, Hedyotis ovatifolia, Hedyotis nudicaulis
Ovate-Leaf Snake-Needle Grass is an erect annual
herb with slender branches and delicate white four-petal flowers.
Flowers are stalked, with flower-cup nearly globose, about 0.5 mm.
Sepal are triangular, 0.2-0.3 mm. Flowers are white, narrow-tubular
opening into a flat-faced flower (salverform). Flower-tube is 1-1.5 mm
long, bearded in throat, petals lanceshaped, about 1 mm. Anthers and
stigma protruding. Leaves are stalkless to usually stalked, stalk 1-5
mm, hairy. Leaves are drying membranous, elliptic or ovate, 1-6 x 0.7-3
cm, hairless above, velvety below, base wedge-shaped to rounded, tip
pointed to rounded, secondary veins 3-6 pairs. Fruit is capsular,
compressed globose, 2-3 × 2-3 mm, hairless. Ovate-Leaf Snake-Needle
Grass is found in the Himalayas, from Kumaun to Sikkim, other parts of
India, Thailand, Indo-China, Taiwan and Malaysia, at altitudes of
200-1200 m.
Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |
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