| Wedge-Leaf Mistletoe |
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| File size | 378017 |
| Original date | 1/28/18 2:33 AM |
| Resolution | 3648 x 5472 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 70D |
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Botanical name: Taxillus cuneatus Family: Loranthaceae (Mistletoe family)
Synonyms: Dendrophthoe cuneata, Loranthus cuneatus, Loranthus montanus
Synonyms: Dendrophthoe cuneata, Loranthus cuneatus, Loranthus montanus
Wedge-Leaf Mistletoe is parasitic shrub, with
branches slender, wrinkled, hairless. Leaves are simple, alternate, up
to 3 x 1.5 cm, obovate, rounded or flat at tip, base wedge-shaped and
forming wings on the leaf-stalk; nerves obscure; leaf-stalk 2-4 mm
long. Flowers are borne 2-5 in stalkless or stalked fascicles in
leaf-axils, bracts 2 mm long, obovate. Sepal-cup is 2 mm long, tube
nearly cylindric, limb irregularly toothed, velvet-hairy. Flowers are
2-3 cm long, tube inflated at middle, curved, 5-ribbed, greenish-white;
lobes linear, recurved or spreading. Stamens protrude beyond the flower
tube; filaments dark red. Berry is 8 mm long, ovoid, crowned by the
sepal-teeth, crimson. Wedge-Leaf Mistletoe is found in peninsular India
and Sri Lanka. Flowering: March-April.
| Identification credit: R. Kottaimuthu | Photographed in Thirukkurungudi - Nambi Kovil, KMTR, Tamil Nadu. |
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