| South-Indian Eye Grass |
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| File size | 606975 |
| Original date | 9/8/22 11:29 AM |
| Resolution | 6000 x 4000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Curculigo trichocarpa Family: Hypoxidaceae (Star Grass family)
Synonyms: Hypoxis trichocarpa, Molineria trichocarpa, Curculigo garoensis, Hypoxis latifolia
Synonyms: Hypoxis trichocarpa, Molineria trichocarpa, Curculigo garoensis, Hypoxis latifolia
South-Indian Eye Grass is a small herb with rhizome
narrowly oblong, up to 10 cm long. Flowers are yellow, velvet-hairy, 1
cm across, tepals oblong-blunt; ovary hairy. Flowers are borne in
racemes 4-8 cm long; bracts linear, 1 cm long. Bisexual flowers are
towards base of racemes; male towards the tip. Leaves are 23-30 x 3-5
cm, elliptic-lanceshaped, tip tapering, base narrowed, pleated,
hairless; leaf-stalk 25-30 cm. Fruit is narrowly oblong. South-Indian
Eye Grass is found in Peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Flowering:
August-April.
| Identification credit: N Arun Kumar | Photographed at Mutturayaswamy betta, Karnataka. |
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