| Three-Nerved Leaf-Flower |
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| File size | 393356 |
| Original date | 6/21/22 12:23 PM |
| Resolution | 1600 x 1200 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 1.94mm |
| Exposure time | 1/20s |
| Aperture | 2.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Redmi Note 8 |
| Sensor type | Undefined |
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Botanical name: Breynia trinervia Family: Phyllanthaceae (Amla family)
Synonyms: Phyllanthus trinervius, Aalius trinervia, Sauropus trinervius
Synonyms: Phyllanthus trinervius, Aalius trinervia, Sauropus trinervius
Three-Nerved Leaf-Flower is an erect shrub up to 4 m
tall, hairless except for glandular-velvet-hairy branches; branches
angular. Stipules are lanceshaped, 5-8 mm; leaf-stalk about 3 mm; leaf
blade ovate or ovate-lanceshaped, 4-12.5 × 2-3.5 cm, base blunt or
rounded, tip pointed; basal veins 3, lateral veins 4-6 pairs, slender.
Flowers are borne in leaf-axils. Male flowers occur in racemes on short
flower-cluster-stalks, with minute bracts; flower-stalks slender, 7-10
mm; calyx enlarging, about 5 mm in diameter, 6-lobed to middle; sepals
ovate-triangular, about 4 mm, reflexed; disk segments 6, stamens 3;
filaments fused into a cylinder. Female flowers occur singly in
leaf-axils; flower-stalk about 7 mm; calyx 4-6 mm in diameter. Sepals
are 6, biseriate, usually unequal, obovate, outer 2 × as long as inner.
Fruiting flower-stalk absent; capsule spherical, about 2.5 cm in
diameter. Three-Nerved Leaf-Flower is found in East Himalayas,
Bangladesh, China South-Central, Myanmar, at altitudes of 800-1300 m.
Flowering: May-September.
| Identification credit: Tapas Chakrabarty | Photographed in Leimaram, Manipur & Guwahati, Assam. |
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