| Single-Flowered Orophea |
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| File size | 365281 |
| Original date | 2/13/16 4:12 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 22.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Orophea uniflora Family: Annonaceae (Sugar-apple family)
Single-Flowered Orophea is a shrub or small tree,
up to 5 m tall. Leaves are 8-10 x 3 cm, ovate, tip tapering, base
pointed, hairless, nerves faint; leaf-stalk to 4 mm long, woolly.
Flowers are 8-10 mm across, solitary or in in leaf-axils clusters;
flower-stalks 3-5 mm long, woolly; sepals 1.5 mm across, round, fringed
with hairs; outer petals 5 mm across, round, fringed with hairs, inner
petals 9 x 4 mm, rhomboid, hairless, nectaries oblong; stamens 9-12,
hairless; ovaries 6, hairless. Fruitlets are 8 mm across, spherical,
hairless; seed one. Single-Flowered Orophea is endemic to Southern
Western Ghats. Flowering: February-August.
| Identification credit: Single-Flowered Orophea | Photographed in Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu. |
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