| Creeping Stone Flower |
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| File size | 252015 |
| Original date | 7/23/16 3:42 PM |
| Resolution | 1200 x 900 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected, auto |
| Focal length | 42.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Henckelia repens Family: Gesneriaceae (Gloxinia family)
Synonyms: Didymocarpus repens, Roettlera repens
Synonyms: Didymocarpus repens, Roettlera repens
Creeping Stone Flower is a threatened creeping herb
with leaves long-stalked, ovate-heart-shaped, sawtoothed, softly hairy
on both surfaces, flower-cluster-stalks 1-5-flowered. Stems are
slender, hairy, nodes distant, rooting, bearing one leaf and one
flower-cluster-stalk. Leaves are 7.5 x 5 cm, pointed, leaf-stalk 10 cm.
Flower-cluster-stalks are 7.5-12.5 cm, hairy, flower-stalks are
somewhat racemed in pairs, or nearly umbelled. Sepals are 2-3 mm.
Flowers are 1.2-1.6 cm, tubular, curved, hairy outside, blue. Creeping
Stone Flower is found in Southern Western Ghats. Flowering:
May-December.
| Identification credit: C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. |
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