| Long-Stamen Basil |
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| File size | 643872 |
| Original date | 8/17/21 10:58 PM |
| Resolution | 5472 x 3648 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 70D |
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Botanical name: Ocimum filamentosum Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Ocimum cristatum, Ocimum indicum, Ocimum exsul
Synonyms: Ocimum cristatum, Ocimum indicum, Ocimum exsul
Long-Stamen Basil is an annual herb with a short
rootstock, stem erect, 15-30 cm high, bluntly 4 angular, velvet-hairy
with retrorse hairs, diffusely branched. Flowers are 6-7 mm long,
finely velvet-hairy outside, pinkish-white; upper lip 3 mm long, lower
equally long. Stamens prominently protruding, twice the length of the
flower, filaments hairless. Sepal-tube is 2.5 mm long, hairless to
velvet-hairy; upper lip broadly ovate-oblong, up to 8 mm long in fruit,
slightly longer than the lower. Flowers are borne in racemes 3-5 cm
long, in separated whorls. Floral leaves are linear-oblong, with a
concave, glandular receptacle at base. Leaves are opposite, 0.7-4.2 x
0.35-1.6 cm, oblong to ovate-oblong, wedge-shaped to tapering to base,
blunt, faintly minutely toothed, hairless and copiously dotted with oil
globules on both surfaces; leaf-stalks 1-2.2 cm long. Nutlets are
spherical, 1.5 mm long, smooth. Long-Stamen Basil is native to Africa,
Arabian Peninsula to Peninsular India and SE Asia. Flowering: May-June.
| Identification credit: R. Kottaimuthu | Photographed in Thirumayam - Kadiapatti, Tamil Nadu. |
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