| Rod-Stem Leptodermis |
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| Original date | 6/18/22 7:42 PM |
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| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 20.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Leptodermis virgata Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Rod-Stem Leptodermis is an erect, much branched shrub,
30-70 cm tall. Branches are hairless, rough or bristly, slender. Leaves
are 6-12 x 2.5 mm, linear, rough above, hairless beneath, straight or
recurved, midrib and nerves obscure; stipules triangular, thickened at
margins with long pungent tips, 2-2.5 mm long. Flowers are purplish,
about 1 cm long; bracts whitish, about 2.5 mm long. slightly bigger
than sepal-cup and almost equalling the capsule. Sepal-cup is hairless;
teeth lanceshaped, fringed with hairs at margin, about 2 mm long.
Flower tube is about 8 mm long, velvet-hairy, lobes about 1 mm long,
triangular. Capsules are 3-3.5 mm, cylindrical. Seed with a few free
fibres. Rod-Stem Leptodermis is found in the Himalayas, up to 2300 m,
on dry stony soil. Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,