| Three-Leaf Saprosma |
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| File size | 635629 |
| Original date | 4/29/17 7:15 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 105.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Saprosma ternatum Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Saprosma ternata, Serissa ternata
Synonyms: Saprosma ternata, Serissa ternata
Three-Leaf Saprosma is a shrub with leaves divided
3-nately (ternate). Branches are pale or dark, smooth, rather stout,
ultimate angled. Leaves are 10-25 cm by 2.5-8 cm, rather leathery,
greenish when dry, midrib and leaf-stalk (6 mm) sometimes scaberulous.
stipules 1.2 cm, lanceshaped with needle-like points, hairless or
velvet-hairy. Leaflets are elliptic or lanceshaped tapering. Flowers
are borne in cymes in leaf-axils solitary or fascicled.
Flower-cluster-stalks are 1.2-2 cm, with bristles at its base, bracts
and bracteoles small lanceshaped. Flowers are 8 mm, velvet-hairy,
white. Style-arms 2, linear. Calyx-teeth are 4-6 triangular, veins
often straight and parallel. Flower-stalks are 6 mm. Calyx is hairless,
shortly bell-shaped - Fruit is ellipsoid, 30 x 6 mm, crowned by a
conical disc. Three-Leaf Saprosma is found in Eastern Himalayas, at
altitudes of 600-1000 m, also in Burma and Andaman.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam. |
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