| Large-Leaf Sword-Plant |
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| File size | 103806 |
| Original date | 5/29/15 11:05 AM |
| Resolution | 760 x 570 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 57.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 4.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 550D |
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Botanical name: Echinodorus cordifolius Family: Alismataceae (Water Plantain family)
Synonyms: Alisma cordifolium, Sagittaria cordifolia
Synonyms: Alisma cordifolium, Sagittaria cordifolia
Large-Leaf Sword-Plant is a perennial, stout herb,
up to 1 m tall, rhizomes present. Leaves are emersed, submersed leaves
mostly absent, leaf-stalk 5--6-ridged, 17.5--45 cm, blade with
translucent markings distinct lines, ovate to elliptic, 6.5--32 x
2.5--19.1 cm, base flat to heart-shaped. Flowers are borne in racemes,
of 3--9 whorls, each 3--15-flowered, decumbent to arching, to 62 x
8--18 cm, often proliferating; flower-cluster-stalks round, 35-56 cm;
axis triangular; bracts distinct, subulate, 10-21 mm, coarse, margins
coarse. Flower-stalks are erect to ascending, 2.1--7.5 cm. Flowers are
up to 2.5 cm across, sepals spreading, 10-12-veined, veins papillate;
petals not clawed; stamens 22; anthers versatile; pistils 200-250.
Fruits inverted-lanceshaped, plump, 3--4-ribbed, below 1-keeled, 2--3.5
x 0.9--1.5 mm; glands 3--4; beak at branch-ends,1--1.3 mm. It is native
to Mexico, the West Indies, Central America, South America.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed in Plantae Paradise, Datyar village near Parwanu, HP. |
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