| Nilgiri Chestnut Vine |
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| File size | 710289 |
| Original date | 1/28/26 8:22 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 146.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DC-FZ10002 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Tetrastigma nilagiricum Family: Vitaceae (Grape family)
Synonyms: Cissus nilagirica, Tetrastigma glycosmoides
Synonyms: Cissus nilagirica, Tetrastigma glycosmoides
Nilgiri Chestnut Vine is a woody, hairless vine, with
branches carrying black warty leaf-stalks. Leaves are stalked,
3-4-foliolate, (if not bigeminate with a solitary central or simply
ternate) obovate - or elliptic-oblong, bluntly apiculate or pointed,
finely toothed, shortly petiolulate. Flower-cluster-stalks are
4-5-branched, branches with umbellate tip - carrrying many flowers.
Flowers are very shortly stalked, sepal-cup short, broadly 4-finely
toothed, petals three times shorter, stamens equaling the ovary, short
thick style, stigma capitellate umbilicate. Nilgiri Chestnut Vine is
native to Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: Dinesh Valke | Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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