| Pretty Narrow-Leaved Swertia |
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| File size | 387906 |
| Original date | 11/7/14 11:26 AM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 18.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Swertia angustifolia var. pulchella Family: Gentianaceae (Gentian family)
Synonyms: Ophelia pulchella, Swertia vacillans, Swertia affinis
Synonyms: Ophelia pulchella, Swertia vacillans, Swertia affinis
Pretty Narrow-Leaved Swertia is a branched herb,
with stem 4-angled, angles narrowly winged. Leaves are lanceshaped, 4 x
1.5 cm, estipulate, stalkless, chartaceous, hairless, 3-ribbed, base
pointed-wedge-shaped, tip pointedly tapering. Flowers are borne in
panicles up to 6 cm, in leaf-axils, also at branch-ends;
flower-cluster-stalks up to 7 cm. Sepals are 4, lanceshaped, 5 mm,
overlapping. Flower are white with blue or violetish spots distally on
the lobes; tube 1.5 mm; petals 4, broadly elliptic, blunt, 9 x 4 mm,
twisted; nectary basal, fringed at mouth and covered by a fringed with
hairs scale; glands round, 1 mm wide. Stamens 4. Ovary 1-celled; ovules
numerous, on parietal placentae; stigma 2-lobed. Pretty Narrow-Leaved
Swertia is found in Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Sikkim.
| Identification credit: Udayan Punakkal | Photographed in Nelliyampathy, Kerala. |
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