| Dense-Flowered Germander |
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| File size | 608774 |
| Original date | 11/17/19 12:24 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 3.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/50s |
| Aperture | 2.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | GIONEE |
| Camera model | GIONEE A1 |
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Botanical name: Achyrospermum densiflorum Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Achyrospermum wallichianum, Teucrium wallichianum
Synonyms: Achyrospermum wallichianum, Teucrium wallichianum
Dense-Flowered Germander is an unbranched herb growing up to
80 cm tall. Flowers are borne in a compact cluster 4-9 x about 2.5 cm.
Flowers are white or pink or white with pink markings, 9-12 mm; tube
7-10.5 mm. Stamens are 4, anterior 2 longer, peeping out of the flower.
Calyx is 7-9 mm; teeth triangular-ovate, those of upper lip 1.5 mm,
those of lower lip 3.5 mm. Bracts are prominent, longer than calyx.
Stem base is woody, prostrate, rooting adventitiously. Stems are 28-100
cm, velvet-hairy to becoming hairless. Leaves are elliptic-ovate,
8.5-14.5 x 3.8-6.5 cm, shortly tapering, base wedge-shaped with blade
extending along leaf-stalk, margins sawtoothed, upper surface appressed
hairy, lower surface velvet-hairy on veins otherwise hairless;
leaf-stalk 1-3.5 cm. Nutlets are 2.5 x 1.7 mm. Dense-Flowered Germander is
found from Nepal to East Himalaya, to Myanmar and Thailand, at
altitudes of 600-2000 m. Flowering: August-November.
| Identification credit: Paradesi Anjaneyulu | Photographed in East Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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