| Small-Flowered Lindernia |
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| Resolution | 648 x 486 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 6.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-P52 |
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Botanical name: Lindernia parviflora Family: Linderniaceae (Lindernia family)
Synonyms: Bonnaya parviflora, Ilysanthes parviflora
Synonyms: Bonnaya parviflora, Ilysanthes parviflora
Small-flowered lindernia is a slender, much branched,
prostrate herb, 10-20 cm high, with stems hairless. Leaves are up to 1.5 x 0.7
cm, ovate, pointed, entire, stalkless; nerves 3 pairs. Flowers are borne in
branch-end racemes or in upper in leaf-axils. Bracts are 5 x 3 mm, ovate;
flower-stalk deflexed in fruit, 1.5 cm long; sepals 3 mm long, fused at
base. Flower are 6 mm long; upper lip bifurcated at tip; lower lip bluntly
3-lobed; staminodes with lateral vermiform appendages. Capsules are 5 x 2.5
mm, ovoid, hairless; seeds 0.3 mm long, obovoid, yellow, hairless.
Small-flowered Lindernia is widespread in Tropical Africa, India and SE Asia.
Flowering: August-December.
| Identification credit: Satish Pardeshi, Dinesh Valke, Prashant Awale | Photographed in Mumbai. |
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