| Indian Bell-Bush |
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| File size | 576086 |
| Original date | 3/3/23 1:19 PM |
| Resolution | 4608 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ60 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Mackaya indica Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Eranthemum indicum, Odontonemella indica, Asystasia thyrsacanthus
Synonyms: Eranthemum indicum, Odontonemella indica, Asystasia thyrsacanthus
Indian Bell-Bush is a shrub 1-2.5 m tall, with stem
erect, brown, hairless. Flowers are borne in lax racemes at branch-ends
in leaf-axils, those in leaf axils shorter and always solitary. Flowers
are white or pink with darker red veins, 2.5-3 cm, finely
glandular-velvet-hairy, tube swollen from near base, 5-lobed but weakly
2-lipped. Stamens do not protrude out. Sepal-cup is 4 mm, finely
velvet-hairy, sepals lanceshaped, tapering. Style is persistent long
after the flower falls. Racemes are 1-19 cm, flowers usually in
opposite pairs, internodes up to 1.5 cm below, less above;
flower-stalks 0-5 mm. Bracts linear-triangular, 2 mm. Leaves are
elliptic, 3-21 x 1.5-8 cm, shortly tapering, wedge-shaped at base,
hairless, paler beneath, often deciduous on higher altitude plants at
flowering time; leaf-stalk 0.5-6 cm. Capsules are 2.5-3 cm, hairless.
Indian Bell-Bush is found in Central Himalaya to China (SW. Yunnan) and
N. Myanmar, at altitudes of 300-3000 m. Flowering: March.
| Identification credit: Susmita Basu | Photographed in Jhandi, North Bengal. |
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