| Red Flame-Acanthus |
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| File size | 613565 |
| Original date | 3/21/08 9:21 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Phlogacanthus thyrsiformis Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Justicia thyrsiflora Roxb., Phlogacanthus thyrsiflorus
Synonyms: Justicia thyrsiflora Roxb., Phlogacanthus thyrsiflorus
Red Flame-Acanthus is a shrub 3-7 ft tall. Leaves are
large, lanceshaped, hairless, about 20 cm long and about 2 cm wide,
tapering at both ends. Flowers are borne in thyrses 10-30 cm long,
borne at branch ends, or on short lateral branches, on short
flower-cluster-stalks. Sepals are 6-8 mm long, densely
velvet-hairy, bracts 0.7-2 cm long, linear. Flowers are wide-tube-shaped,
2-lipped, orange-red, closely hairy. Tube is broad from the base, curved;
upper lip nearly erect and the lower one spreading. Stamens are
hairless or slightly hairy near the base of the filaments, style
hairless. Capsule is 3 cm long, 4 mm wide, somewhat quadrangular,
hairless, 12-14-seeded. Seeds are much compressed, circular in outline,
densely hairy, hairs elastically spreading when moistened. Red Flame-Acanthus
is found in subtropical Himalayas, from Garhwal to Bhutan and NE India,
at altitudes up to 1000 m.
| Identification credit: Sudhansu Sekhar Dash | Photographed in Imphal, Manipur. |
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