| Heart-Leaf Tickweed |
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| File size | 384712 |
| Original date | 7/9/21 7:37 AM |
| Resolution | 4000 x 2248 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.74mm |
| Exposure time | 1/312s |
| Aperture | 1.79 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Redmi Note 8 |
| Sensor type | Undefined |
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Botanical name: Cleome scaposa Family: Cleomaceae (Spider Flower family)
Synonyms: Cleome cordata, Cleome gracilis, Cleome linearis
Synonyms: Cleome cordata, Cleome gracilis, Cleome linearis
Heart-Leaf Tickweed is an annual or perennating herb,
10-30 cm tall, slender, erect, sparsely branched from below, hairy with
glandular or eglandular hairs. Flowers are borne in rather lax,
elongated racemes, increasing up to 20 cm in fruit, often bracteate
below. Flowers are 3-4 mm across, actinomorphic, white turning
yellowish rarely pinkish; flower-stalk 2.5-4.5 mm long increasing up to
1 cm in fruit, thread-like, ultimately spreading, slender. Sepals are
about 2 mm long, elliptic, glandular velvet-hairy. Petals are 3-4 mm
long, oblong-obovate, yellowish. Stamens are 6, about as long as the
petals, not protruding. Leaves are simple, nearly round to
ovate-elliptic; blade 1.0-2.0 cm long, 0.5-2 cm broad, scabrous or
papillose; leaf-stalk 0.5-2 cm long, fringed with hairs hairy; upper
leaves almost stalkless. Capsule is linear, 2-3 cm long, 1 mm broad,
slender. Heart-Leaf Tickweed is native to Africa to Central India.
| Identification credit: Rohit Patel | Photographed in Gujarat. |
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