| Tranquebar Spur-Anther Flower |
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| Original date | 12/21/15 8:46 AM |
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| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 32.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
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Botanical name: Centranthera tranquebarica Family: Orobanchaceae (Broomrape family)
Synonyms: Centranthera lepidota, Centranthera humifusa, Digitalis roxburghii
Synonyms: Centranthera lepidota, Centranthera humifusa, Digitalis roxburghii
Tranquebar Spur-Anther Flower is a herb with stem
erect, up to 15.5 cm high, often diffusely branched from base, slender,
bristly on angles. It is named for Tranquebar (now Tharangambadi), a town
in the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu.
Leaves are linear, opposite below, alternate above,
0.9-2.8 x 0.2 cm, narrowed at base, subblunt at tip, pustular rough on
both surfaces. Flowers are borne in axils of middle and upper leaves.
Bracts oblong, 1-1.5 mm long. Bracteoles linear-oblong, 1-1.5 mm long.
Calyx tube inflated, 4.5-5 mm long, bristly without. Flowers are
1.0-1.1 cm long; tube 6-9 mm long, dorsally dull purple, ventrally
yellowish; lobes of limb yellow; lower lip 7 mm across. Style hairless.
Seedpod is spherical, 4 x 4 mm, slightly shorter than calyx, tipped
with withered style, hairless, brown; seeds oblong-wedge-shaped, 0.8 mm
long, netveined. Tranquebar Spur-Anther Flower is is found in
Indo-Malesia. Flowering: September-November.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. |
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