| Fringed Flower Rotala |
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| File size | 1135604 |
| Original date | 9/12/08 3:25 PM |
| Resolution | 2592 x 1944 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 5.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 2.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A530 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Rotala fimbriata Family: Lythraceae (Crape Myrtle family)
Synonyms: Ammannia pentandra var. fimbriata
Synonyms: Ammannia pentandra var. fimbriata
Fringed Flower Rotala is an amphibious annual herb, with
stems creeping and rooting below, erect above, up to about 50 cm tall,
simple or branched, weakly 4-angled. Leaves are arranged in perpendicular
pairs, stalkless, lanceshaped to oblong, 1-3 cm long, blunt at tip.
Flowers are monomorphic, stalkless, borne singly in axils of leaf-like
bracts. Sepal-tube is bell-shaped, 2-2.5 mm long, disintegrating in
fruit; sepals are 5 or rarely 6, triangular, about 0.5 mm long; sepal-cup
appendages absent. Petals are 5 or rarely 6, pinnately divided into linear
segments, 2-3 mm long, bright pink, showy. Stamens are 5 or rarely 6;
filaments 3-3.5 mm long, anthers protruding. Capsules are elongate-ellipsoid,
about 3 mm long. Fringed Flower Rotala is found in Peninsular India.
| Identification credit: Sankara Rao | Photographed at Hebbal Campus, Bangalore. |
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