| Agastyamala Twisted-Flower |
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| File size | 525979 |
| Original date | 2/13/16 12:15 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 18.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1000s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Strophanthus wightianus Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Agastyamala Twisted-Flower is a climbing shrub with
stem, leaf-stalks and flower-cluster-stalks violetish. Leaves are 8-10
x 2.5-3 cm, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, pointed at tip, narrowed at
base; veins 8-12 pairs, lopped to form inter marginal vein. Flowers in
at branch-ends branched cymes. Bracts 0.3-0.4 cm long, triangular,
tapering. Flower-cluster-stalks stout. Flower-stalks 0.5-0.6 cm long.
Sepals 5, 0.2-0.25 cm long, tapering. Flowers are brown; tube 0.7-0.8
cm long, widened at throat. Coronal lobes are 5, 0.8-1 cm long, linear
lanceshaped. Stamens 5, included; anthers arrow shaped. Disc 0. Carpels
2, apocarpous; ovules many; style slender, thread-like; stigma conical.
Follicles stout, 8-10 cm long, 0.2 cm wide, tapering to tip. Seeds
many, ovoid, compressed, 0.6-0.8 cm long, tipped with silky coma.
Agastyamala Twisted-Flower is endemic to Southern Western Ghats, typically
found in Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve. Flowering: March-January.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma | Photographed in Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu. |
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