| Prostrate Justicia |
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| Original date | 8/24/17 8:51 AM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Justicia prostrata Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Justicia diffusa var. prostrata, Rostellularia prostrata
Synonyms: Justicia diffusa var. prostrata, Rostellularia prostrata
Prostrate Justicia is a prostrate herb with stem
angled, velvet-hairy. Leaves are opposite, ovate to nearly round, 7-13
x 6-8 mm, rounded-wedge-shaped at base, entire at margin, blunt to
somewhat pointed at tip, velvet-hairy along the nerves beneath.
leaf-stalk 2 mm long. Flowers are borne in spikes at branch-ends, up to
2 cm long. Flowers are about 7 mm long, pale pink, 2-lipped, tube 2 mm
long, lower lip 3-lobed, ovate, upper lip broadly obovate, hairless.
Bract are lanceshaped, 3.5 mm long, membernous, rough along the margin;
bracteoles linear, 2 mm long, membranous, rough along the margin. Calyx
is 4-partite, erect, sepals linear-subulate, 3.5 mm long, fringed with
hairs at margin.Capsules are oblong, 2.5 mm long, bristly-hairy; seeds
2-4, obovoid, minutely papillose. Prostrate Justicia is foun in
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed at the outskirts of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. |
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