| Erect White Lavender |
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| File size | 139931 |
| Original date | 12/25/11 3:32 PM |
| Resolution | 700 x 525 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/2500s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot SX130 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Coleus dysophylloides Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Anisochilus dysophylloides, Anisochilus albidus
Synonyms: Anisochilus dysophylloides, Anisochilus albidus
Erect White Lavender is a shrub 1-2 m takk with
grooved, hairy stem. Leaves are up to 7 x 1.5 cm, oblong, obtuse,
stalkless, densely hairy, nerves 4 pairs, very oblique. Flower spikes
are 7 mm broad, linear, solitary or 2-3 together, terminal, densely
hairy; bracts 4 mm long, ovate. Flowers are whorled, thickly arranged,
calyx 4.5 mm long, deflexed, densely hairy, upper lip closing the tube,
entire. Flowers are about 1 cm long, white to blue, upper lip
spoon-shaped, concave, lower lip 3-lobed, midlobe notched or lobuled.
Nutlets are trigonous, brown, smooth. Erect White Lavender is found in
Western Ghats.
Flowering: September-December
| Identification credit: J.M. Garg | Photographed in Arsikere, Karnataka. |
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