| Willow-Leaved Swallow-Root |
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| File size | 444497 |
| Original date | 6/11/15 7:56 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/40s |
| Aperture | 3.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon IXUS 265 HS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Decalepis salicifolia Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Utleria salicifolia Bedd. ex Hook.f.
Synonyms: Utleria salicifolia Bedd. ex Hook.f.
Willow-Leaved Swallow-Root is a critically
endangered and endemic medicinal plant with very narrow restricted
distribution. It is a subshrub. Leaves are up to 15-19 x 2-3 cm,
linear-lanceshaped, tip long-pointed, base narrow, crowded at the end
of branches. Leaves have wavy margins. Flowers are borne in leaf axils,
in dichotomous cymes. Peduncles are 4.5-6 cm, bracts
linear-lanceshaped, about 3 mm. Flowers are about 6 mm across, yellow,
on stalks up to 4 mm. Sepals are about 2 mm, glandular. Flowers are
pinwheel-shaped, 2 mm, petals ovate, corona scales 5, rounded, stamens
inserted at base of the corolla tube, anthers ovate, ovary oblong.
Fruits are split into diverging, lanceshaped mericarps up to 5 cm long.
Willow-Leaved Swallow-Root is found in Southern Western Ghats.
Flowering: June.
| Identification credit: M. Saradha | Photographed at Annamalai Hills, Tamilnadu. |
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