| Panicled Bone-Tree |
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| Original date | 5/18/17 12:38 PM |
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| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3200 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Ostodes paniculata Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Synonyms: Ostodes corniculata, Ostodes prainii
Synonyms: Ostodes corniculata, Ostodes prainii
Panicled Bone-Tree is a shrub up to 3 m or tree to
15 m, with leaves thinly leathery, ovate 13-30 x 6.5-18 cm, shortly and
abruptly tapering base rounded, 3-veined, margins bluntly sawtoothed,
hairless expect for tuffs of hair in vein axils beneath, leaf-stalks
3.5-20 cm, with 2 stalked glands at tip, stipules oblong 3mm. Male
flowers are borne in panicles 18-30 cm, drooping, sepals 4-5 mm, petals
7-9 mm, ovary woolly. Female flowers are about 1.2 cm; sepals and
petals as in male; disk annular; ovary hairy; styles 3, bifid to below
middle, tip densely longitudinally grooved. Capsules are 2-3 cm,
diameter woody. Panicled Bone-Tree is found in the Himalayas, from
Nepal to Bhutan, Assam, Burma, S. China, Indo-China, W. Malaysia, at
altitudes of 460-1400 m.
| Identification credit: Saroj Kasaju | Photographed in Sourinee, Mirik, Darjeeling distt. |
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