| Contracted Velvet-Leaf |
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| File size | 384432 |
| Original date | 11/18/22 10:20 PM |
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| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 36.0 |
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| Metering Mode | $meteringMode |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5600 |
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Botanical name: Wissadula contracta Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Synonyms: Wissadula leschenaultiana, Sida contracta, Abutilon leucanthemum
Synonyms: Wissadula leschenaultiana, Sida contracta, Abutilon leucanthemum
Contracted Velvet-Leaf is a perennial undershrub,
1-2.8 m tall. Leaves are broadly ovate, heart-shaped, tapering. Leaves
are green above and glaucous underneath , and measure 3.5-8.0 cm long
and 2.5-7.5 cm at their widest. The glaucousness of the leaf underside
result from a dense covering of star-shaped hairs which obscure the
blade. Flowers are borne at branch-ends in raceme-like panicle. Flowers
are 1.0-1.4 cm across, white, with inverted-heart-shaped petals. Sepals
are green, five, fused up to around halfway. Sepal-cup is persistent.
Mericarps are 2-6, about 3 x 6 mm. Seeds 3 in each mericarp. Contracted
Velvet-Leaf is native to Mexico to Tropical America, naturalized in
parts of India. Flowering: October-February.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka. |
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