| Small-Leaf Osbeckia |
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| Original date | 1/27/14 11:17 AM |
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| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 3.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
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Botanical name: Osbeckia parvifolia Family: Melastomataceae (Melastome family)
Small-Leaf Osbeckia is a prostrate to ascending
herb. Stems are laxly hairy with purplish or brownish to yellowish
spreading hairs. Leaves are elliptic, 1-6 x 0.8-3 cm, basally rounded
to obtuse with a 1-6 mm long stalk, pointed at the tip, generally 3 or
sometimes 5-nerved, rather densely velvet-hairy with long hairs on both
sides. Flowers are few or several in rather loose clusters, stalked,
4-petalled or occasionally 5-petalled. Hypanthium is 2-4 mm wide, with
a rather lax cover of purplish or brownish to yellowish long hairs.
Sepals are triangular-ovate, 2-4 mm long, persistent in fruit. Petals
are 5-11 mm long, pink to mauve. Anthers are ovate-oblong, obtuse, 2-4
mm long, not or only slightly twisted. Small-Leaf Osbeckia is found in
South India and Sri Lanka.
Identification credit: Gurumurthi Hegde, Shrikant Ingalhalikar
| Photographed in Mullayagiri, Karnataka. |