| Wavy-Leaf Lace Plant |
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| File size | 746005 |
| Original date | 6/13/20 12:46 PM |
| Resolution | 4000 x 3000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 3.819mm |
| Exposure time | 1/642s |
| Aperture | 2.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Redmi Note 5 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Aponogeton undulatus Family: Aponogetonaceae (Cape-pondweed family)
Synonyms: Spathium undulatum, Urirandra undulata
Synonyms: Spathium undulatum, Urirandra undulata
Wavy-Leaf Lace Plant is an aquatic, submerged,
perennial, tuber-bearing herbs, 1-2 m high. Roots are many, arise from
the top of the tuber, yellowish brown, 2-15 cm long, secondary branches
capillary. Leaves are submerged, simple, stalked; leaf-stalks 30-170 cm
long, length varies with depth of the water, greenish. Leaves are
oblong-elliptic, brownish green, blunt or shallowly notched at the tip,
18-30 x 3-8 cm, round at the base, midrib prominent at the base with
4-6 parallel nerves, closely arranged thin nerves connects parallel
nerves, margins wavy. White flowers are produced on a single erect
spike. Wavy-Leaf Lace Plant has its unusual mode of propagation: often,
on the ends of long, partly branched stalks mostly adventitious
plantlets with small tubers appear instead of flower spikes. Wavy-Leaf
Lace Plant is found in India to Indo-China, Peninsula Malaysia, Borneo.
| Identification credit: Dipankar Borah | Photographed in Biswanath Chariali, Sonitpur, Assam. |
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