| Curved-Flower Mistletoe |
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| File size | 497291 |
| Original date | 10/15/11 2:37 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D40 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Taxillus recurvus Family: Loranthaceae (Mistletoe family)
Synonyms: Loranthus candolleanus, Loranthus recurvus, Dendrophthoe recurva
Synonyms: Loranthus candolleanus, Loranthus recurvus, Dendrophthoe recurva
Curved-Flower Mistletoe is a parasitic shrub with
rusty branchlets, growing on trees. Leaves are obovate, 3-5 x 2-3 cm,
base wedge-shaped, tip blunt, blackish green above when dry, thinly
grey-velvet-hairy below; leaf-stalk up to 1.5 cm. Flowers are borne in
cymes which are up to 6-flowered, rusty. Bracts are ovate, free from
the calyx, but partly enveloping it below. Sepal-tube is 3 mm; teeth 5,
irregularly lobed. Flowers are 2 cm long, tubular, yellowish green, 8
mm wide. Flower-tube is curved, split half-way, inflated below the
middle, rusty-hairy; with 5 petals. Stamens are 5, style 2 cm. Drupe is
oblong to flask-shaped, 1 x 0.4 cm, rusty. Curved-Flower Mistletoe is
endemic to Western Ghats.
Flowering: October-December.
| Identification credit: C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. |
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