| Malacca Ginger |
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| File size | 380680 |
| Original date | 4/5/15 6:00 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Alpinia malaccensis Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Synonyms: Costus malaccensis
Synonyms: Costus malaccensis
Malacca Ginger is a sturdy herb with pseudostems
about 3 m or more. Ligule 2-cleft, to 1 cm, slightly woolly; leaf-stalk
about 2 cm, grooved; leaf blade oblong-lanceshaped or lanceshaped, up
to 90 x 15 cm, below velvet-hairy, base pointed, tip tapering. Flowers
are borne in erect racemes, up to 35 cm; axis stout, densely yellow
velvet-hairy; bracteoles white, broadly elliptic, 3.5-4 cm.
Flower-stalk is about 7 mm, densely yellow velvet-hairy. Calyx is
bell-shaped, about 1.5 cm, densely silky. Flowers are white, silky;
tube about 1 cm; lobes oblong-lanceshaped, 2.5-3 cm. Lateral
staminodes absent. Lip yellow with red stripes, ovate, about 3.5 cm,
tip notched. Stamen about 2.4 cm. Ovary hairy. Capsule yellow,
spherical, about 2 cm in diam., splitting irregularly. Malacca Ginger
is a native of Indonesia, Malaysia, NE India. Flowering: April-May.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma, M. Sabu | Photographed in Agumbe, Karnataka. |
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