| Veined-Leaf Wool-Flower |
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| File size | 708840 |
| Original date | 3/27/24 11:00 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.04mm |
| Exposure time | 1/49s |
| Aperture | 1.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | vivo |
| Camera model | V2238 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Lasianthus venulosus Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Santia venulosa, Nonatelia venulosa, Mephitidia venulosa
Synonyms: Santia venulosa, Nonatelia venulosa, Mephitidia venulosa
Veined-Leaf Wool-Flower is a small trees, with young
stem sparsely hairy. Leaves are 6-12 x 2.5-4 cm, elliptic ovate to
oblong, pointed, tapering or even apiculate at tip, round to broadly
narrowed at base, hairy on nerves below. Stipules triangular ovate,
hairy. Flowers are borne in short stalked cymes in leaf-axils, carried
on flower-cluster-stalks 0.5-0.8 cm, hairy. Bracteoles are
spine-tipped, 0.25 cm long. Sepal-tube is 0.1-0.15 cm long; sepals
0.2-0.25 cm, hairy. Flowers are white, tube 1.5-2 mm long. Drupes are
spherical, 5-6 mm diameter, purple on ripening. Veined-Leaf Wool-Flower
is found in Tamil Nadu.
| Identification credit: Kiranraj R. | Photographed in Dodebetta, Nilgiris distt., Tamil Nadu. |
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