| Wedge-Leaf Sida |
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| File size | 510726 |
| Original date | 4/3/16 8:15 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 22.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Sida cuneifolia Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Synonyms: Dictyocarpus truncatus, Hermannia alnifolia, Melochia truncata
Synonyms: Dictyocarpus truncatus, Hermannia alnifolia, Melochia truncata
Wedge-Leaf Sida is a perennial herb, with many
trailing or erect repeatedly forked branches, 6-12 inches long, arising
from the root stock. Leaf-stalk is shorter than the leaves, which are
small, 1.2 cm long, obovate, flat at tip. wedge-shaped at the base,
sparsely covered with star-shaped hairs; stipules small, ligulate.
Flowers arise singly in leaf-axils, on very short jointed stalks, which
are sometimes crowded towards the end of the branches. Calyx is
broad-cup-shaped, 5-cleft; sepals triangular. Flowers are yellow;
petals about 5 x 2 mm, hairless. Stamen column is about 1.5 mm long,
star-shaped-hairy. Fruit is spherical, of 5 hairless, 1-seeded,
slightly beaked carpels (beak bent inwards) splitting along the inner
edge. s Wedge-Leaf Sida is found in Peninsular India.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim, J.M. Garg | Photographed at Manimangalam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. |
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