| Sikkim Leaf-Flower |
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| Original date | 6/6/17 6:26 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 3.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Phyllanthus sikkimensis Family: Phyllanthaceae (Amla family)
Synonyms: Phyllanthus secundiflora, Phyllanthus perlisensis, Reidia hamiltoniana
Synonyms: Phyllanthus secundiflora, Phyllanthus perlisensis, Reidia hamiltoniana
Sikkim Leaf-Flower is a shrub up to 1 m, with branches
round, peberulous. Leaves are ovate ellipitic, 2-4.5 x 1-3 cm, pointed,
base rounded, pale and nearly hairless beneat, on short leaf-stalk 1-2
mm, stipules subulate. Flowers are small, pink, carried on long stalks,
fascicled in clusters. Male flowers are carried on flower-stalks
1.5-2.5 cm, springing from minute clusters of bracts. Sepals are
rounded, deeply toothed; disk dilated, deeply 4-lobed ; staminal column
very short. Female flowers are carries on longer, very slender stalks,
longer than the leaves, curved. Flowers are clustered towards
branch-ends, and in leaf axils. Sepals are 5-6, toothed. Styles are 4,
subulate, erect. Fruit is fleshy 3-seeded, bearing stylar remains brone
on oedicel thickened at tip. Sikkim Leaf-Flower is found in Eastern
Himalayas, from Nepal to Bhutan, NE India, Thailand, N. Malay
Peninsula, at altitudes of 200-1300 m.
| Identification credit: Sushant More | Photographed in Garbhanga reserve forest, Assam. |
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