| Arabian Swamp Mallow |
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| File size | 473209 |
| Original date | 1/6/20 5:37 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 3.94mm |
| Exposure time | 1/161s |
| Aperture | 1.9 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | POCO F1 |
| Sensor type | MonochromeArea |
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Botanical name: Pavonia arabica Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Synonyms: Hibiscus microphyllus, Pavonia glandulosa, Hibiscus flavus
Synonyms: Hibiscus microphyllus, Pavonia glandulosa, Hibiscus flavus
Arabian Swamp Mallow is an undershrub, up to 30 cm
tall, velvet-hairy, usually intermingled with simple, spreading hairs.
Unlike its name, it is a dweller of dry areas. Flowers arise singly in
leaf-axils, on flower-stalk 1.5-2.5 cm long. False sepals are 10-12,
very prominent, 1-1.5 cm long, linear, velvet-hairy and with long,
simple, spreading hairs. Sepal-cup is 5-7 mm long, fused below the
middle or sometimes to the middle, woolly, nerved; sepals lanceshaped,
pointed. Flowers are 1-1.5 cm across, pink; petals about 1 cm long, 0.7
cm broad, obovate, rounded, claw hairy on the margin. Staminal tube
about 6 mm long, included, hairless, filament present near the tip and
at the base of tube, upper ones 1-2 mm long, lower ones 5-6 mm long.
Leaves are oblong or oblong-ovate, 1-4.5 cm long, 0.7-3.5 cm broad,
entire or toothed towards tip, blunt or apiculate, rounded or flat at
base, velvet-hairy on both sides, scabrulous; stipule thread-like, 3-4
mm long; leaf-stalk 0.7-2 cm long. Fruits are nearly spherical, 7 mm
across, vinous. Arabian Swamp Mallow is found among rocks and boulders
of deserts and dry scrubs in NW India, Pakistan, Arabia and Ethiopia.
| Identification credit: Rajkumar Yadav | Photographed in Kachchh, Gujarat. |
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