| White Porterweed |
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| File size | 163793 |
| Original date | 7/6/05 12:25 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/338s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Stachytarpheta cayennensis Family: Verbenaceae (Verbena family)
Synonyms: Stachytarpheta australis f. albiflora, Stachytarpheta cayennensis f. alba
Synonyms: Stachytarpheta australis f. albiflora, Stachytarpheta cayennensis f. alba
White Porterweed is a small shrub, 1-2.5 m tall, with
nearly cylindrical, hairless branches. Leaves are opposite-decussate,
ovate to elliptic, 3-6 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm broad, sawtoothed,
wedge-shaped, scabrous, shortly stalked; leaf-stalk 1-1.5 cm long.
Spikes are elongated, up to 25 cm long, slender, becoming hairless or
sparsely velvet-hairy. Flowers are white or blue with whitish centers,
about 5 mm across, bracteate with linear-lanceshaped tapering bracts.
Calyx-tube is 4-5 mm long, 4-toothed, hairless. Flower-tube as long or
slightly exceeding the calyx; limb 4-5-lobed, with lobes 1.5-2 mm long.
Fruit with persistent style, splitting into two, 1-seeded pyrenes.
White Porterweed is found throughout the Tropical world.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Imphal, Manipur. |
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