| Translucent Cobra Lily |
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| File size | 436307 |
| Original date | 7/7/17 4:57 AM |
| Resolution | 2000 x 1500 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 70D |
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Botanical name: Arisaema translucens Family: Araceae (Arum family)
Translucent Cobra Lily is a perennial herb with
pseudostem up to 1 foot long. This plant has been rediscovered in 2017,
after a gap of 84 years. Flower reaches up to halfway length of
the stem; flower-cluster-stalk 12-14 x 0.2-0.8 cm, light yellow-pink.
Spathe is 7.5-9 cm long including limb; tube cylindric, 3-3.2 x 1.2-1.5
cm, hoodlike at mouth, translucent and striped with about 30
longitudinal lines. Mouth is inverted-heart-shaped-obovate; tip with
thread-like tail, tail up to 2.5 cm long, deflexed. Male spadix is
stalkless, 4.5 cm long. Female spadix is stalkless, cylindrical, longer
than the tube; appendix up to 5 cm long. Underground stem is a
spherical tuber, 2-2.5 x 3-4 cm across. Leaf is solitary, digitatelly
compound, leaf-stalk 20-30 cm long, pale purple mottled with brown and
white; leaflets 9-11, lanceshaped to oblong-inverted-lanceshaped; blade
8-15 x 2-3.5 cm, base narrowed, tip tapering, margin entire- curled,
hairless, pale green above, glossy below. Translucent Cobra Lily is
endemic to Thia Shola forest, Tamil Nadu. Flowering: April-June.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith, P. Samydurai, C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Carrington Shola, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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