| Assam Mussaenda |
|
 |
|
| File size | 152175 |
| Original date | 6/27/11 1:12 PM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 42.4mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
| Focus Distance | |
| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ40 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
 |
 ative |
 |
 |
 |
Photo: |
Botanical name: Mussaenda keenanii Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Assam Mussaenda is an erect robust undershrub. It is
named for R.L. Keenan who first collected it from Cachar in Assam.
Flowers are borne in dense flowered clusters, about 8 cm across, almost
head-like, carried on a stout flower-cluster-stalk. Flowers are
orange-red, pentamerous, tube about 2.5 cm long. Sepals are 1.2 cm
long, fine, persistent. Stem is white with thick corked coating, splits
longitudinally, up to 1.5 cm in diameter, velvet-hairy above. Stipules
are very broadly ovate, tapering, up to 2 cm long, leathery, hairy,
erect or recurved. Leaf-stalks are up to 5 cm long, very robust. Leaves
are elliptic to obovate, abruptly tapering, somewhat leathery,
hairless, blade 20-31 x 10-13 cm, lateral nerves 15-18 on either half,
almost parallel, very prominent underneath, secondary nerves more or
less parallel, base narrowed into leaf-stalk or wedge-shaped. Berries
are fleshy. Assam Mussaenda is found in NE India, from Sikkim to Assam,
and Bangladesh.
Flowering: June-February.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Gangtok, Sikkim. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,