| Small-Flowered Packing Leaf |
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| Original date | 9/10/16 11:54 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
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| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/25s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-HX400V |
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Botanical name: Stachyphrynium placentarium Family: Marantaceae (Arrowroot family)
Synonyms: Phrynium placentarium, Phrynium parviflorum, Phyllodes placentaria
Synonyms: Phrynium placentarium, Phrynium parviflorum, Phyllodes placentaria
Small-Flowered Packing Leaf is a plant 1-2 m tall.
Basal leaf is 1 or 2; leaf sheath 3-50 cm. Stem leaf is 1; leaf sheath
3-5 cm; leaf-stalk 7.5-60 cm, pulvinus 2-7 cm; leaf blade ovate to
elliptic, 25-55 x 8-20 cm, thinly leathery, hairless, base rounded with
an pointed center, tip tapering. Flower clusters are stalkless,
composed of 4 or 5 or more spikelets, spherical, 3-8 cm in diameter;
bracts crowded, oblong, 2--2.5 cm, tip with a needle-like tip. Flowers
are 2 per bract, white to yellowish white. Sepals are linear, about 5
mm. Flower tube is about 8 mm; petals elliptic, about 5 × 2 mm. Outer
staminodes obovate, about 5 mm. Fruits are oblong, about 1.2 cm; skin
thin, seed 1, ellipsoid, about 1 cm; aril red. Small-Flowered Packing
Leaf is found in Nepal to S. China and SE Asia, at altitudes up to
1500 m. Leaves are used for wrapping food items like cooked rice, raw
sugar, common salt, dry fish, etc. Flowering: May-August.
| Identification credit: M. Sawmliana | Photographed in Tamdil, Mizoram. |
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