| Tapering-Leaf Wool-Flower |
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| File size | 524847 |
| Original date | 3/16/16 1:44 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 51.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 1000D |
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Botanical name: Lasianthus acuminatus Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Mephitidia acuminata, Nonatelia acuminata
Synonyms: Mephitidia acuminata, Nonatelia acuminata
Tapering-Leaf Wool-Flower is a large shrub. Leaves
are up to 9 x 4 cm, elliptic, oblong, apiculate, hairless; nerves 4
pairs, prominent; nervules closely parallel; leaf-stalk 5-7 mm long;
stipule triangular, pointed, hairless. Flowers are borne 1-3 together,
stalkless; sepals pointed, triangular, hairy. Flower are 8 mm long,
white, tube slender, petals ovate, blunt, densely hairy. Fruit is 5 x 5
mm, spherical, hairless. Tapering-Leaf Wool-Flower is endemic to
southern Western Ghats. Flowering: May-November.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Agumbe, Karnataka. |
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