| Leafless Climbing Milkweed |
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| File size | 540971 |
| Original date | 5/10/17 2:04 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Cynanchum sarcomedium Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Sarcostemma intermedium
Synonyms: Sarcostemma intermedium
Leafless Climbing Milkweed is a leafless climber
with branches fleshy, round, jointed; latex milky. Flowers are borne in
umbels at branch-ends, 5-15 flowered. Flowers are creamy; flower-stalks
0.7-1.2 cm, creamy, finely velvet-hairy. Calyx is 5-lobed; sepals
ovate-lanceshaped, about 2 mm. Flowers are 1.4-1.8 cm across,
5-petalled; petals about 6 x 3 mm, oblong, bluntly pointed at tip.
Outer corona 10-lobed, wavy, about 2 mm; inner about 2 mm. Pollinia 5.
Stigma tapering at tip. Fruit is smooth 7-10 cm long; seeds oblong,
about 5 x 2 mm, winged; coma silky. Leafless Climbing Milkweed is
endemic to Peninsular India. Flowering: August-December.
| Identification credit: Sushant More | Photographed in Gadak, Karnataka. |
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