| Hairy-Tube Coneflower |
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| File size | 57417 |
| Original date | 11/10/22 10:20 AM |
| Resolution | 600 x 800 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 5.23mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 1.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | samsung |
| Camera model | SM-M515F |
| Sensor type | MonochromeArea |
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Botanical name: Strobilanthes pubiflora Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Hairy-Tube Coneflower is an undershrub 0.5-1 m.
Flowers are blue, 3.2-5 cm, velvet-hairy, tube whitish, slightly
curved, gradually widened to 1.2-1.6 cm at mouth. Sepal-cup 5-7mm in
flower, accrescent to 1.2 cm in fruit, sticky glandular-hairy, sepals
linear, pointed, one longer than others. Flowers are borne in dense,
nearly round, stalked heads borne on simple or 2-3 forked in leaf-axils
branchlets which are usually shorter than subtending leaves and
leaflets as leaves at branching point fall early; flower-cluster-stalks
hairless. Bracts are nearly round, concave, 2-9 mm, rounded. Stems are
prostrate or rising up, hairless. Leaves are unequal, broadly elliptic,
6-20 x 2-7 cm, shortly tapering, base narrowed, sawtoothed, hairless,
green above, paler beneath; leaf-stalks 0.3-2cm. Capsules are 1.4-1.5
cm, glandular-hairy nearly to base. Hairy-Tube Coneflower is found in
E. Himalaya to NE India.
| Identification credit: John Wood | Photographed near Dikchu, East Sikkim. |
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