| Pygmy Stone Flower |
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| File size | 830887 |
| Original date | 9/11/22 2:52 PM |
| Resolution | 3456 x 4608 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 4.05mm |
| Exposure time | 1/50s |
| Aperture | 1.78 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | vivo |
| Camera model | vivo 1907 |
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Botanical name: Didymocarpus pygmaeus Family: Gesneriaceae (Gloxinia family)
Synonyms: Roettlera pygmaea
Synonyms: Roettlera pygmaea
Pygmy Stone Flower is a tiny, annual, velvet-hairy
herb with stem 0.4-2.5 cm tall, slender, curved, bearing one leaf at
its tip. Leaf is elliptic-ovate, 2-8 x 1.2-6.5 cm or much smaller,
oblique, blunt at both ends, thin; leaf-stalk 0-2 mm long.
Flower-stalks are few, 5-8 mm long. Flowers are white, tubular, 2-5 mm
long. Sepals are linear, 2-5 mm long. Stamens are two, fertile, two,
linear rudiments, hairless. Ovary and style hairy; stigma small,
subcapitate, scarcely 2-lobed. Capsule is 1.5-2 cm long, nearly
straight, 2-valved. Pygmy Stone Flower is native to NW and Central
India. Flowering: August-October.
| Identification credit: Raja Ghosh | Photographed in Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Jharkhand. |
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