| Panicled Crypteronia |
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| File size | 992450 |
| Original date | 2/12/23 6:40 AM |
| Resolution | 4608 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 26.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1000s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX P900 |
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Botanical name: Crypteronia paniculata Family: Crypteroniaceae (Crypteronia family)
Synonyms: Henslowia paniculata
Synonyms: Henslowia paniculata
Panicled Crypteronia is a tree 12-30 m tall, 10-50 cm
in diameter. Bark is brown to gray-brown; twigs hairless. Leaf-stalks
are 5-10 mm; leaf blade elliptic to oblong or ovate-oblong, 7-17 x 3-7
cm, hairless or finely velvet-hairy, usually finely and distinctly
netveined below, lateral veins 6-8 pairs, base rounded to wedge-shaped,
tip tapering to cuspidate. Flowers are borne in drooping panicles in
leaf-axils or at branch-ends, 15-25 cm, without definite
flower-cluster-stalk. Flowers are many, up to 150, dense, very tiny,
carried on flower-stalks 1-3 mm. Sepals are 5, triangular, about 1 mm,
stamens 5, reduced and mostly permanently inflexed in female flowers,
3-5 mm, hairless. Capsules are 2-3 mm, laterally compressed. Panicled
Crypteronia is native to NE India to China, Andaman Islands and SE
Asia. Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: Aditya Gadkari, Navendu Pagé | Photographed at Mount Harriet National Park, South Andaman. |
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