| Pale Deccan Coneflower |
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| File size | 150468 |
| Original date | 1/27/03 9:21 AM |
| Resolution | 888 x 666 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 71.2mm |
| Exposure time | 1/147s |
| Aperture | 5.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E8700 |
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Botanical name: Strobilanthes carinei Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Stenosiphonium setosum, Stenosiphonium parviflorum
Synonyms: Stenosiphonium setosum, Stenosiphonium parviflorum
Pale Deccan Coneflower is a spreading shrub up to 2 m
in height. Flowers are pale violet to white; tube 6 mm; throat 6-8 mm;
petals 3-5 mm, with two darker violet spots present on each of the
upper petals and one on each lower one; sparsely glandular velvet-hairy
on outer surface. Stamens are 2, strongly protruding; staminodes are 2
(rarely 3), 2-3 mm, white, reaching the mouth of the flower and ending
in a slightly expanded tip. Style is 1.2-1.4 cm, strongly protruding.
Sepals are s green towards the tip, pale below, narrowly lanceshaped,
3-6 mm long, glandular hairy outside. Flower-spikes are 2-7 cm long,
flowers maturing from the base and more densely clustered towards the
base of the spike; axis glandular hairy. Bracts are green, narrowly
triangular, 3-8 x 1-2 mm, equal to or longer than the sepal-cup; tip
tapering; hairless or glandular hairy. Leaves are weakly unequally
paired, blade ovate 2.5-4.5 x 1.3-7.5 cm, hairless above. Veins are
prominent, 5-6; leaf-stalk 0.8-3.5 cm. Capsule is 8-10 mm long,
glandular hairy or hairless at the tip. Pale Deccan Coneflower is
endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: E.S. Santhosh Kumar | Photographed in Southern Western Ghats. |
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