| Three-Petal Humboldtia |
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| File size | 609933 |
| Original date | 2/26/13 5:18 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon IXUS 115 HS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Humboldtia brunonis Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)
Three-Petal Humboldtia is a small tree, up to 10 m
tall. It was named for Robert Brown, 19th century Scottish botanist.
Branchlets are round and hairless. Young branchlets are angular and
hairy. Leaves are compound, paripinnate, alternate. Stipules occur in
pairs, lanceshaped with broad kidney-shaped leaf-like appendage at
base. Rachis is short about 6 cm long, angular, obscurely winged.
Leaflets are 2 pairs, almost stalkless, lower most pair just above the
pulvine. Blade is 8-26 x 2-8.3 cm, narrow elliptic to oblanceolate, tip
bluntly cuspidate with mucronate tip, base asymmetric, somewhat
leathery, hairless. Midrib is impressed above, secondary nerves strong,
about10 pairs. Flowers are showy, borne in racemes in leaf axils. They
have white petals and rosy pink sepals. Pods are up to 7 x 3 cm, flat,
twisted when dry, seeds flat, rounded. Three-Petal Humboldtia is endemic to
the Western Ghats, between Wayanad and Sringeri Regions of Central
Sahyadri.
| Identification credit: Shivaprakash Nedle | Photographed at Nekkarekadu, Karnataka. |
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