| Purple Hedyotis |
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| File size | 150230 |
| Original date | 10/17/11 9:04 AM |
| Resolution | 640 x 480 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D40 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Hedyotis purpurascens Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Oldenlandia purpurascens
Synonyms: Oldenlandia purpurascens
Purple Hedyotis is a small woody erect shrub, with
branches having prominent leaf scars. Leaves are ovate-lanceshaped,
blunt or somewhat pointed, base narrow, hairless, leathery, up to 6 cm
long, about 1.5 cm broad. Stipules are comblike. Flowers are purple,
borne in many-flowered corymb-like clusters a branch-ends. Sepal-tube is long
and sepals are oblong blunt, purplish. Flowers are 5 mm long with small
petals. Capsules are 8-10 mm long, with the enlarged calyx, narrowly
ellipsoid, cells many seeded. Purple Hedyotis is found in Peninsular
India. Flowering: October-December.
| Identification credit: C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. |
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