| Shining Gynura |
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| File size | 451652 |
| Original date | 9/26/15 1:19 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 200.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 550D |
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Botanical name: Gynura nitida Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Gynura simplex, Senecio heyneanus
Synonyms: Gynura simplex, Senecio heyneanus
Shining Gynura is a stout herb, stem furrowed,
hairless. Leaves are basal and stem, similar, 10-15 x 3-4 cm,
inverted-lanceshaped, entire, tip bluntly pointed, narrowed and
stem-clasping at base. Flower-heads are 16 x 12 mm, cylindrical, 10-20
together, borne in panicled cymes. Bracts are 10 x 2 mm, lanceshaped,
pointed; receptacle rugose. Flowers are not all fertile; florets are
yellow, 1 cm long, lobes blunt, glandular. Achenes are 3.5 x 1 mm,
ellipsoid, 11-ribbed, flat, black; pappus 14 mm long, white. Shining
Gynura is endemic to Peninsular India. Flowering: January-December.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed along Chikmagalur-Mullayaingiri Road, Karnataka. |
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