| South-Indian Vatica |
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| File size | 112848 |
| Original date | 5/11/14 5:23 PM |
| Resolution | 1200 x 900 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 119.153mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot SX40 HS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Vatica chinensis Family: Dipterocarpaceae (Sal family)
Synonyms: Vateria roxburghiana, Vatica sinensis, Vatica roxburghiana
Synonyms: Vateria roxburghiana, Vatica sinensis, Vatica roxburghiana
South-Indian Vatica is an evergreen tree, up to 25 m
tall, with bole buttressed; bark pale green, smooth; exudation
resinous; young shoots, buds scaly. Flowers are bisexual, white, broen
in leaf-axils, in spreading panicles. Flower-stalks are 5-ribbed; ribs
alternating with sepals; sepal-tube is very short, adnate to the base
of the ovary; sepals 5, ovoid-triangular, pointed, velvet-hairy. Petals
are 5, white, oblong; stamens 15 in 2 rows; filaments short, stigmas
densely papillose, obscurely 3-lobed. Leaves are simple, alternate;
stipules small, fugacious; leaf-stalk 2-5 cm long, stout, hairless;
blade 9-25 x 3-11 cm, ovate or oblong, base blunt or broadly
wedge-shaped, tip bluntly pointed, margin entire, leathery, hairless;
lateral nerves 10-14 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae
scalariform, prominent. Fruit is a capsule, scaly, nearly spherical
shortly pointed with 3 obscure furrows, finely velvet-hairy; pericarp
leathery; sepal-cup persistent. South-Indian Vatica is native to South
India and Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: Ajit Ampalakkad | Photographed in Ernakulam, Kerala. |
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