| Wrinkled Pod Mangrove |
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| File size | 109227 |
| Original date | 7/10/11 12:27 PM |
| Resolution | 976 x 732 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 63.9mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Cynometra iripa Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)
Wrinkled Pod Mangrove is a tree up to 8 m tall,
with fluted trunk and bark smooth, thin, grey. Leaves are uni-or
bijugate. Leaves are compound, alternately arranged, paripinnate with 2
pairs of leaflets, upper pair larger than lower. Leaflets are obliquely
oblong to obovate-oblong, tip blunt or retuse, base asymmetrically
acute, 6-9 x 2-4 cm, hairless, shining on both surfaces. Flowers are
small, zygomorphic, bisexual, white but turning brown. Sepals are 4-5,
petals 5, free. Stamens are 10, with filaments slender, ovary inserted,
asymmetrically elliptical, style slender, stigma capitate. Fruits are
ellipsoid, compressed, 3-2 cm, full of wrinkles, with lateral beak
extending to about 6 mm long, 1 seeded. Wrinkled Pod Mangrove is found
as a back mangrove in coastal forests of Sri Lanka , India , Malaysia,
and northeastern Australia.
| Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar | Photographed in Achara, Malvan, Maharashtra. |
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