| Long-Scape Stone Flower |
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| File size | 339142 |
| Original date | 7/21/16 3:37 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Henckelia humboldtiana Family: Gesneriaceae (Gloxinia family)
Synonyms: Didymocarpus humboldtianus, Roettlera humboldtiana
Synonyms: Didymocarpus humboldtianus, Roettlera humboldtiana
Long-Scape Stone Flower is a herbs with flowers borne
on a leafless stem. It is named for Baron Alexander von Humboldt, 19th
century German geographer who explored Central and South America.
Flowering stems are few, 15-20 cm long, branched. Flower-racemes are
glandular hairy; bracts and bracteoles similar, linear. Flowers are
blue, paired, borne on flower-stalks 1.5 cm long; sepals 3.5 x 1 mm,
oblong, blunt. Flowers are 1.3 cm long, thinly hairy, mouth oblique,
petals round; staminodes hooked; ovary densely glandular-hairy, stigma
oblique, papillose. Leaves are up to 6-7 x 6 cm, broadly ovate, blunt,
rounded or heart-shaped at base, broadly rounded toothed,
bullate-woolly above, woolly beneath; nerves 5-6 pairs; leaf-stalk 5-8
cm long, wings divided. Capsule 4 x 0.2 cm, tapering, glandular hairy;
seeds ellipsoid, rugate, brown. Long-Scape Stone Flower is found in
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Flowering: September-November.
| Identification credit: C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. |
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