| South Indian Colicwood |
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| Original date | 3/27/24 11:16 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.04mm |
| Exposure time | 1/49s |
| Aperture | 1.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | vivo |
| Camera model | V2238 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Myrsine wightiana Family: Myrsinaceae (Myrsine family)
Synonyms: Rapanea wightiana, Rapanea rubens
Synonyms: Rapanea wightiana, Rapanea rubens
South Indian Colicwood is tree up to 10 m tall,
branchlets slender, with prominent petiolar scars. Leaves are simple,
alternate, clustered towards the tip of branchlets; leaf-stalk to 1 cm
long; blade 7.5-8 x 1.5-3.5 cm, inverted-lanceshaped, base narrowed,
tip pointed, margin entire, recurved, hairless, leathery, dotted;
lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, obscure. Flowers are polygamous, 4 mm across,
in 5-8 flowered fascicles, carried on flower-stalk up to 1 mm long,
bracts ovate. Petals are 5, 2-3 mm long, glandular hairy along the
margin; stamens 5, stalkless, basifixed. Sepal-tube is 1 mm long;
sepals 5, 0.1-0.15 cm long, wedge-shaped, dotted, pointed, fringed with
hairs; ovary superior, ovoid, 1-celled; style short; stigma slightly
2-lobed. Fruit is a berry, 3 mm wide, nearly spherical, purple; seed
single, spherical. South Indian Colicwood is S. India, Sri Lanka, and
NE India. Flowering: February-April.
| Identification credit: Kiranraj R. | Photographed in Nilgiris distt, Tamil Nadu. |
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