| Malabar Paddle-Pod |
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| File size | 495175 |
| Original date | 3/7/16 10:20 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5200 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Pristimera arnottiana Family: Celastraceae (Spike-thorn family)
Synonyms: Loeseneriella arnottiana, Hippocratea arnottiana
Synonyms: Loeseneriella arnottiana, Hippocratea arnottiana
Malabar Paddle-Pod is a climbing shrub;
branchlets round, hairless. It was named for George Arnold
Walker-Arnott, 19th century Scottish botanist and Professor of Botany
at Glasgow University. Leaves are ovate-elliptic, 10 - 18 x 4 - 7.5 cm,
pointed at tip, base blunt, leathery, entire or faintly rounded
toothed; venation netveined, prominent. Flowers are borne in cymes in
leaf-axils, about 8 mm across. Calyx is 5-lobed; sepals triangular,
entire, hairless. Petals are 5, round, with narrow claw, hairless,
fringed. Fruit is a samara, narrowly oblong, 8 x 2.5 cm, blunt,
striped. Malabar Paddle-Pod is found in Western Ghats, Karnataka,
Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Sri Lanka. Flowering: February-March.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma, Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Karkala, Karnataka. |
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