| Rough Dayflower |
|
 |
|
| File size | 488403 |
| Original date | 11/8/14 10:24 AM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
| Focus Distance | |
| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
 |
 ative |
 |
 |
Photo: |
Botanical name: Rhopalephora scaberrima Family: Commelinaceae (Dayflower family)
Synonyms: Commelina scaberrima, Tradescantia scaberrima, Aneilema scaberrimum
Synonyms: Commelina scaberrima, Tradescantia scaberrima, Aneilema scaberrimum
Rough Dayflower is an erect herb, up to 1 m tall.
Leaves are scattered, oblong-lanceshaped, tapering, base rounded,
narrowed into a leaf-stalk, bristly above and hairless below, up to 15
x 3.5 cm, sheath bristly, up to 2.5 cm long. Flowers are borne in
panicles at branch-ends, glandular velvet-hairy. Flowers are pale lilac
or blue, 0.8 cm across. Sepals basally fused. Ovary 3-celled; ovule 1
in each cell. Capsule spherical, velvet-hairy 3.5 mm across; seeds
planoconvex, glandular. Rough Dayflower is found in Indo-Malesia. It is
also found in Eastern Himalaya, at altitudes of 800-2100 m.
Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: Mayur Nandikar, Dipankar Borah | Photographed in Nelliyampathy, Kerala & Upper Siang, Arunachal Pradesh. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,