| Few-Flowered Coralberry |
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| File size | 482789 |
| Original date | 1/6/15 12:38 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Ardisia pauciflora Family: Primulaceae (Primrose family)
Synonyms: Ardisia tenuiflora
Synonyms: Ardisia tenuiflora
Few-Flowered Coralberry is a shrub with branchlets
radiate, densely dotted with red glands. Leaves are elliptic, tapering
at both ends, densely dotted with black glands below, nerves
indistinct; leaf-stalk 5 mm long. Flowers are borne in umbel-like
racemes in leaf-axils. Flower-cluster-stalks are up to 1.5 cm long.
Flowers are few-together; flower-stalks short; sepals ovate, pointed,
hairy, dotted; petals are 2.5 mm long, ovate, pointed, reddish brown,
hairless; anthers apiculate. Berry is 6 mm across, spherical, black,
smooth. Few-Flowered Coralberry is found in South India and Sri Lanka.
Flowering: February-May.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka. |
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