| Malabar Flame-Acanthus |
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| Original date | 9/13/26 9:36 AM |
| Resolution | 640 x 480 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.43mm |
| Exposure time | 1/447s |
| Aperture | 1.89 |
| Focus Distance | 0.456m |
| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
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| Camera model | Pixel 7a |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Phlogacanthus grandis Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Diotacanthus grandis
Synonyms: Diotacanthus grandis
Malabar Flame-Acanthus is a shrub, 8-12 ft. tall, with
branches 4-angled. Flowers are red to purple, minutely velvet-hairy, tube 4 mm,
limb 1.8 cm; upper lip notched, lower shortly 3-lobed. Sepals are 6
mm, linear. Filaments are as long as the flower, stout, minutely
scabrous. Style is minutely velvet-hairy, almost entire.
Flower-cluster-stalks are 5-12 cm, stout, compressed, carrying flower
panicles often 10-20 cm; bracts at its divisions 1.6 cm, linear;
proper bracts 3 mm, linear. Leaves are 17 by 7 cm, narrowed at both
ends, wavy, obscurely rounded toothed; nerves 12 pair; leaf-stalk 1.8
cm.Capsules are 2.5 cm by 3-4 mm, 24-seeded. Malabar Flame-Acanthus is
found in Tirunelveli, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta,
Alappuzha, Kottayam, and Idukki districts in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
| Identification credit: Paulmathi Vinod | Photographed in Agastyamalai hills, Tamil Nadu. |
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