| Malabar Memecylon |
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| File size | 581200 |
| Original date | 4/2/17 4:42 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 250.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
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| Metering Mode | $meteringMode |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 600D |
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Botanical name: Memecylon randerianum Family: Melastomataceae (Melastome family)
Synonyms: Memecylon malabaricum Cogn.
Synonyms: Memecylon malabaricum Cogn.
Malabar Memecylon is a bushy shrub with leaves 5-12
x 1.5-4 cm, ovate, tip gradually pointed, heart-shaped at base,
stalkless; nerves obscure. Flowers are borne fascicled in very dense
many-flowered cymes; flower-cluster-stalks 1-2 mm long; flower-stalks
short, 1-2 mm long. Sepal tube is 1-2 mm long, bell-shaped, flat at
tip. Petals are 1-2 mm long, obovate, blue. Style subulate, about 3 mm
long. Berry 4-5 mm across, spherical. Malabar Memecylon is endemic to
Southern Western Ghats. Flowering: February-May.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith | Photographed in Shola forest, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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