| Shirui Pipevine |
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| File size | 178619 |
| Original date | 6/2/18 11:08 AM |
| Resolution | 900 x 675 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 12.9mm |
| Exposure time | 1/25s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Aristolochia wardiana Family: Aristolochiaceae (Birthwort family)
Synonyms: Isotrema wardianum
Synonyms: Isotrema wardianum
Shirui Pipevine is a climber about 5 m long 6-10 cm in
diameter, velvet-hairy. Leaves are leathery, ovate-lanceshaped 12-16 cm
long 3-4 cm wide, tip pointed or tapering base eared, 5-6 cm wide, with
round ears, nearly hairless above, hairless or nearly so beneath;
lateral nerves 4-6, with netveined nerves beneath; leaf-stalks 3-5 cm
long. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils; bract ovate about 4 mm long,
flower-stalk about 2.5 cm long velvet-hairy. Flower is about 4 cm long,
refracted in the middle, 1 cm diameter expanded in a utricle shape at
the top, tip 3-lobed, orifice about 3 mm diameter, flower tube about 5
mm diameter, purplish when dry. Cylindrical ovary about 1.5 cm long
about 3 mm in diameter, densely velvet-hairy. Shirui Pipevine is found
at Shirui hill in Manipur, Myanmar and China.
| Identification credit: Dipankar Borah | Photographed at Shirui hill, Ukhrul, Manipur. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,