| St Thomas Mount Rockgrass |
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| File size | 891929 |
| Original date | 9/7/17 10:13 AM |
| Resolution | 6000 x 4000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 105.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Oropetium thomaeum Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Nardus thomaea, Rottboellia thomaea
Synonyms: Nardus thomaea, Rottboellia thomaea
St Thomas Mount Rockgrass is a clustered annual grass
with stems erect, 5 cm tall, branched; nodes hairless. Leaves are few,
scattered, blade 1-2.5 cm long, thread-like or conduplicate, margins
with tubercle based hairs; sheaths small, shortly keeled; ligule
narrow, membranous. Flower-spikes are borne at branch-ends, solitary.
2.5-4 cm long. cylindrical; axis compressed, scabrous. Spikelets are
solitary, biseriate, sunken in the cavities of the axis along the
sides; glumes persistent, unequal, lower one minute, broadly
triangular, upper glume 1.5 mm long, lanceshaped, smooth. St Thomas
Mount Rockgrass is native to Tropical Africa, Indian Subcontinent to
Indo-China. Flowering: November-December.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in rocky outcrops Budli, Andhra Pradesh. |
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