| Dwarf Diamond Flower |
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| File size | 448849 |
| Original date | 3/9/23 12:53 PM |
| Resolution | 3648 x 2736 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 3.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX A900 |
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Botanical name: Oldenlandia pumila Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Hedyotis pumila, Oldenlandia crystallina
Synonyms: Hedyotis pumila, Oldenlandia crystallina
Dwarf Diamond Flower is an annual herb, much branched
at the base; stems mostly prostrate, 3-17 cm long. Leaves are elliptic
to elliptic-lanceshaped or linear-lanceshaped, 0.5-1.6 cm long, 1-6 mm
wide, pointed at the tip, narrowed to the base, virtually stalkless.
Flowers are white, really tiny, hardly 1.5 mm across, tube 1 mm long;
lobes ovate, 0.6-0.7 mm long and wide. Sepal-cup is ellipsoid to almost
spherical, 1 mm long; sepals triangular, 1-1.2 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide.
Flowers are borne usually solitary at the nodes, rarely apparently in
at branch-ends stalked 2-3-flowered cymes, or in in leaf-axils
2-flowered cymes; flower-cluster-stalk 3-9 mm long, flower-stalks 2-3
mm long, threadlike, elongating to 1.1 cm in fruit. Capsules are
oblong-ovoid, 2-3 mm long, 1.5-2.2 mm. wide, beak 0.2-0.7 mm. Dwarf
Diamond Flower is found in India to Malaya, Jawa.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Delhi. |
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