| Thread-like Boeica |
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| File size | 100083 |
| Original date | 6/22/17 10:37 AM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 18.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/4000s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
| Focus Distance | 0.0m |
| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | FinePix HS35EXR |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Boeica filiformis Family: Gesneriaceae (Gloxinia family)
Synonyms: Chelone filiformis
Synonyms: Chelone filiformis
Thread-like Boeica is an undershrub with small
pink-purple flowers borne in loose thread-like panicles, arising from
leaf axils. Flower-cluster-stalks are slender, 7 cm or longer.
Flower-stalks and branches of inflorescence are thread-like, hairless.
Bracts are small, calyx is 5-parted. Flower-tube is short, obscurely
2-lobed, lobes nearly equal, rounded. Stamens are 4, with short
filaments with generally 2-celled anthers. Ovary is stalkless. Leaves
are narrow-elliptic, with tapering tips, 10-15 cm long, 2.5-4 cm broad,
lateral nerves about 9 on each side, base narrowed, stalk 0.8-2.4 cm.
Capsule is linear, 1-1.5 cm long, beaked by the style. Seeds are small,
smooth, ellipsoid. Thread-like Boeica is found in Eastern Himalayas in
Lakhimpur, Cachar, Khasi and Garo Hills. Flowering: June.
| Identification credit: Hareesh Vadakkoot | Photographed in Behali reserve forest, Biswanath, Assam. |
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