| Indian Compound-Leaf Meliosma |
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| File size | 715981 |
| Original date | 1/28/19 10:01 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 210.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Meliosma pinnata subsp. barbulata Family: Sabiaceae (Sabia family)
Synonyms: Meliosma pinnata var. barbulata
Synonyms: Meliosma pinnata var. barbulata
Indian Compound-Leaf Meliosma is a tree up to 18 m
tall. Bark is brownish, warty; blaze pink with orange speckles. Young
branchlets are stout, angular to nearly round, warty, rusty woolly.
Leaves are compound, imparipinnate, alternate, spiral; axis round,
rusty woolly, pulvinate; leaflet-stalk 0.2- 1.5 cm long, rusty woolly;
leaflets 3-7 pairs with one at branch-ends leaflet, subopposite or
opposite, 6.5-15 x 2.5-5 cm, lanceshaped to ovate-oblong, tip gradually
tapering, base asymmetric and pointed or rounded, margin entire,
sometimes remotely toothed, thinly leathery, woolly on nerves beneath;
midrib channeled above; secondary nerves rising up; tertiary nerves
coarsely netveined. Flower panicles are borne at branch-ends and in
leaf-axils, woolly. Flowers are greenish, stalkless. Drupe is
spherical, 0.5 cm across; seed one, smooth.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Wagaman, Kerala. |
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