| Palani Sonerilla |
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| File size | 191394 |
| Original date | 11/26/17 1:30 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Sonerila pulneyensis Family: Melastomataceae (Melastome family)
Palani Sonerilla is a herb with branchlets hairless,
glossy, somewhat fleshy. It is named after Palani Hills of Tamil Nadu
and Kerala, where it was first found. Leaves are ovate, 1-3 x 1-2 cm,
somewhat fleshy, hairless, 1-nerved, base blunt, margin sawtoothed, tip
pointed; leaf-stalk 8 mm. Flowers are borne in 5-flowered umbel-like
cymes at branch-ends, also in leaf-axils.flowered. Flowers are
3-merous. Sepals cup is hairless, glossy; sepals 3, often falling off.
Petals are 3, rose. Stamens are 3, equal; anthers basifixed. Ovary is
3-celled; ovules many; style thread-like. Capsules are urn-shaped, 1 x
0.8 cm, hairless, glossy, dry; stalk 1 cm; seeds numerous. Palani
Sonerilla is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
Flowering: October-February.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Eravikulam National Park, Munnar, Kerala. |
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