| Woolly Germander |
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| File size | 315935 |
| Original date | 1/24/16 8:51 AM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 9.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Teucrium tomentosum Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Woolly Germander is an erect shrubs with branchlets
woolly. Leaves are simple, opposite, up to 11 x 6 cm, ovate, pointed at
tip, rounded at base, rounded toothed, hairy along nerves; leaf-stalk
1-3 cm long. Flowers are borne in panicled racemes at branch-ends and
in leaf-axils; bracts 3 mm long, ovate, small. Flowers are closely
packed, stalked. Calyx is 6 mm long, lobed near the tip, sepals equal,
pointed, hairy. Flower are yellow to white, 1.1 cm long, upper lip
absent, lower lip 3-lobed, lateral lobes smaller. Stamens didynamous,
filaments hairless; anthers kidney-shaped. Style is thread-like, stigma
bifid. Nutlets are 4, basely united, globular, netveinedly pitted,
glandular. Woolly Germander is found in Peninsular India and Sri Lanka.
Flowering: September-December.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma, Arun Singh | Photographed in Bangalore, Karnataka. |
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