| Fascicled-Flower Snake-Root |
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| File size | 187750 |
| Original date | 7/19/18 1:15 PM |
| Resolution | 1300 x 975 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Ophiorrhiza fasciculata Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Ophiorrhiza bracteolata, Virecta fasciculata, Virecta suffruticosa
Synonyms: Ophiorrhiza bracteolata, Virecta fasciculata, Virecta suffruticosa
Fascicled-Flower Snake-Root is a perennial Herbs or subshrub,
erect, up to 50 cm tall. Stems are hairy to hairless. Leaves occur in
nearly equal pairs. Leaf-stalk is 1-1.5 cm, hairy. Leaf-blade drying
papery, sometimes darkened above, pale below, elliptic to
lanceshaped-elliptic, 8-12 × 3-6 cm, hairless, base blunt to
wedge-shaped, flat, tip pointed, secondary veins 10-13 pairs. Stipules
are narrowly triangular, 4-10 mm. Flowers are borne in congested
several flowered fascicles, atop a stalk 1-8 cm long. Branched portion
1-2 cm. Bracts are ligulate-lanceolate, 6-12 mm, persistent. Flowers
are nearly stalkless with sepal cup densely velvet-hairy. Hypanthium is
compressed cylindrical, 1-1.5 mm. Sepals are ovate to triangular, 1-1.2
mm. Flowers are white, sometimes flushed with pink, drying yellowed,
tubular-funnel-shaped, outside velvety, tube 1-1.5 cm, inside hairless.
Petals are ovate-oblong, 1.5-2.5 mm. Capsules are compressed rhombic,
1.5-4.5 × 4-10.5 mm, hairy. Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: J.M. Garg | Photographed in Durtlang, Mizoram. |
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