| Deep-Purple Chiretta |
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| File size | 443754 |
| Original date | 8/14/17 12:22 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 250.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | $meteringMode |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 600D |
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Botanical name: Andrographis atropurpurea Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Andrographis gracilis, Andrographis wightiana
Synonyms: Andrographis gracilis, Andrographis wightiana
Deep-Purple Chiretta is a nearly erect
undershrubs, with stems hairy. Leaves are up to 10 x 4 cm, ovate,
tapering, broadest at base, hairless; nerves 4 or 5 pairs, prominent;
leaf-stalk 0-5 mm long. Flowers are borne in panicle with long lax
racemes, scabrid; bracts and bracteoles subulate. Flowers are distant;
sepals 5 mm long, subulate, hairy; flower 1.8 cm long, hairless, upper
lip round, retuse, dark brown, lower lip shallowly lobed, light pink
with brown spots; lower anther bases bearded. Capsule 22 x 3 mm,
oblong, glandular hairy; seeds 8, round, hairless. Deep-Purple
Chiretta is found in Western Ghats. Flowering: July-September.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith | Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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