| Large Tongue-Lip |
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| File size | 1011526 |
| Original date | 7/4/22 6:15 AM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3888 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 107.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX B700 |
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Botanical name: Rhynchoglossum ampliatum Family: Gesneriaceae (Gloxinia family)
Synonyms: Klugia ampliata
Synonyms: Klugia ampliata
Large Tongue-Lip is a perennial herb, with hairless
stem. Leaves are about 15 x 8 cm, upper and lower surface hairless,
leaf-stalks 1-4 cm long. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils or in
branch-end racemes, bracteole prominent, persistent,
flower-cluster-stalks 1-2 cm long, flower-stalks 0-4 mm long. Sepal-cup
is about 1.5 cm long, 5-lobed, sepals as long as the tube, lanceshaped,
nearly equal, cylindrical, deep green. Flowers are bluish white.
Stamens 4 fertile, anthers coherent. Capsule is ovoid oblong within
acrescent sepal-cup. Large Tongue-Lip is endemic to Arunachal Pradesh.
| Identification credit: Momang Taram | Photographed in Lower Subansiri Distt, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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