| Dillenia-Leaved Meliosma |
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| Original date | 6/9/15 8:49 AM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
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| Focal length | 30.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 4.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX P530 |
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Botanical name: Meliosma dilleniifolia Family: Sabiaceae (Sabia family)
Synonyms: Millingtonia dilleniifolia
Synonyms: Millingtonia dilleniifolia
Dillenia-Leaved Meliosma is a tree to 8 m tall,
deciduous. Leaves simple; leaf-stalk about 3.5 cm; leaf blade obovate
or ovate-elliptic, 10-30 x 4.5-8 cm, papery, below curved hairy, above
velvet-hairy, lateral veins 16-20 pairs, straight, running out into
teeth, base wedge-shaped, margin bisawtoothed, tip pointed or tapering.
Panicles at branch-ends, erect, 14-30 cm, branched 3 or 4 times;
flower-cluster-stalks and branches angulate, velvet-hairy. Flowers are
stalkless; bracts absent. Flowers are about 2 mm in diameter. Sepals
are 5, ovate or broadly ovate, about 1 mm, fringed with hairs. Petals:
3 outer ones white, flat, round, about 2 mm wide; 2 inner ones about 1
mm, bifid to half; lobes pointed, fringed with hairs. Stamens about 1.5
mm. Drupe is spherical, 3-3.5 mm in diameter, finely netveined, midrib
prominent. Dillenia-Leaved Meliosma is found in the Himalayas, from
Punjab to Bhutan, Tibet, N. Burma, at altitudes of 1800-2900 m.
Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: Anil Thakur | Photographed in Himachal Pradesh. |
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