| Star-Anther Swan Flower |
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| File size | 229153 |
| Original date | 6/10/19 7:02 AM |
| Resolution | 3264 x 4928 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Globba rahmanii Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Star-Anther Swan Flower is a hairless herb up to 30-40
cm. Leaf-stalks are 5 mm; blade elliptic to broadly lanceshaped, 15-20
x 6-8 cm, base decurrent on the short leaf-stalk; tip drawn out into a
2 cm long, narrow tip. Inflorescence axis is thin, in upper part
thread-like, hairless, recurved, with long, slender
flower-cluster-stalk. Sterile bracts are linear, up to 6 cm long,
sometimes subtending bulbils; fertile bracts also linear.
Cincinni 5-10, hairless with a sterile proximal part of
the axis, 3-6 cm and the distal, floriferous part with 8-12 flowers.
Flowers are orange, flower-stalks about 5 mm, dilated at tip. Sepal-cup
4-4.5 mm, 3-lobed with pointed lobes, fringed with hairs at margin.
Flower tube is finely velvet-hairy, 1.3-1.4 cm; petals hoodlike, 6-7.5
mm x 3-4 mm. Lateral staminodes are triangular, about 1.5 cm long, 9
mm broad below the rounded tip. Lip is 1.5-1.8 cm long, bifid with
divergent, rounded lobes. Filament is about 2.5 cm long, anther 2 mm,
lateral anther appendages bifid. Star-Anther Swan Flower is found in NE
India and Bangladesh.
| Identification credit: M. Sabu | Photographed in Phulpui, Mizoram. |
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