| Smooth Gymnostachyum |
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| File size | 277987 |
| Original date | 12/27/13 12:18 PM |
| Resolution | 1200 x 900 |
| Flash | Flash fired, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 2.7 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Gymnostachyum glabrum Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Cryptophragmium glabrum
Synonyms: Cryptophragmium glabrum
Smooth Gymnostachyum is an undershrub found in Western
Ghats, with stems nearly hairless. Leaves are ovate or elliptic, 17 x 6-7 cm,
on 1.8 cm long stalks, narrowed at both ends, wavy toothed.
Flowers are borne in panicles at the top, fascicled on the spikes.
Flowers are 1.5 cm, stalkless, white, spotted inside with purple spots,
minutely velvet-hairy.
They are two-lipped to about half the way down; upper lip 8 x 3 mm,
obovate-oblong, shortly 2-lobed at tip. Lower lip is 3-lobed to half way
down, lobes 4 x 2 mm, oblong blunt.
Sepals are five, about 5 mm, nearly linear, hairy. Bracts are linear.
Capsule is 1.8-2 cm long. Smooth Gymnostachyum is found in the Western
Ghats.
| Identification credit: Prashant Awale | Photographed in Dhavlya Ghat, Maharashtra. |
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