| Yellow Thottea |
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| File size | 579988 |
| Original date | 3/11/21 2:09 PM |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1440 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 3.7mm |
| Exposure time | 1/236s |
| Aperture | 2.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | LG Electronics |
| Camera model | LG-M250 |
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Botanical name: Thottea duchartrei Family: Aristolochiaceae (Birthwort family)
Yellow Thottea is a herb or undershrub with
branches floppy, minutely velvet-hairy on the younger parts, nodes
swollen. It is named for the French botany professor, Pierre Duchartre.
Leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceshaped, tapering, entire, shining
green above, greyish velvet-hairy or rufous below, 3-nerved from base,
laterals exceeding the middle of the blade; leaf-stalk 5-8 mm long.
Flowers are borne 1-2 in leaf-axils; flower-cluster-stalks short,
bracteate; buds 8 mm across, depressed spherical or button like, softly
velvet-hairy all over, yellowish or purple tinted. Tepals are 3, as
long as the flower-tube, round-pointed, broader than long, 5 x 8 mm.
Gynostemium is 4-5 mm across, minutely glandular hairy. Stamens are 9,
united in 3 bundles in a ring around the stylar column. Capsules are
6-10 cm long, green, becoming hairless. Yellow Thottea is endemic
to Southern Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: E S Santhosh Kumar, S. Kasim | Photographed in Kerala. |
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