| Manipur Coneflower |
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| File size | 210169 |
| Original date | 4/7/21 12:20 PM |
| Resolution | 3264 x 2448 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 23.7mm |
| Exposure time | 1/40s |
| Aperture | 3.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ35 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Strobilanthes recurva Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Manipur Coneflower is a rare, softly velvet-hairy
undershrub about 1.5 foot tall. Leaves are ovate, pointed, rounded
toothed, the lower ones longer stalked. Flowers are purple,
tubular-trumpet-shaped, 1.25 inch long, nearly straight. They are borne
in loose cylindrical spikes, continuous, 5 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, with
the tips of the bracts visibly recurved. Sepal-cup is 5-parted with
linear segments, tips dilated, glandular-hairy. Bracts are broadly
ovate in outline, almost stalkless, persistent, green, covered with
glandular hairs, fringed with hairs. Bracteoles are small linear.
Capsules are about 1.2 cm long, hairy at tip; seeds 4, hairy. Manipur
Coneflower is found in NE India and Bangladesh, notably in Manipur
and Nagaland. Flowering: April-May.
| Identification credit: John Wood | Photographed in Leimaram, Manipur. |
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