| Mountain Long Pepper |
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| File size | 539665 |
| Original date | 5/31/19 11:25 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 3.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX A900 |
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Botanical name: Piper sylvaticum Family: Piperaceae (Pepper family)
Synonyms: Piper dekkoanum, Piper malmoris
Synonyms: Piper dekkoanum, Piper malmoris
Mountain Long Pepper is a herbaceous climber,
dioecious. Stems are ridged and furrowed when dry. Leaf-stalks are 1-7
cm, very finely powdery velvet-hairy; prophylls 1/2 as long as
leaf-stalks or slightly longer; leaf blade usually ovate, those at tip
of stem ovate-lanceshaped, 8-11 x 4-8.5 cm, papery, densely glandular,
hairless, base blunt to heart-shaped, symmetric, tip tapering; veins 7.
Flower spikes are leaf-opposed. Male spikes are slender, 5-8 cm. Female
spikes are erect, 1.5-2.5 cm x 3-4 mm; flower-cluster-stalks are 0.5-2
cm; bracts round, stalkless, about 1.5 mm in diam. Ovary is spherical,
distinct. Mountain Long Pepper is found in South China, Bangladesh, NE
India, Myanmar.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in East Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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