| Narrow-Leaf Chiretta |
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| File size | 401206 |
| Original date | 10/15/16 12:29 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 33.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 700D |
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Botanical name: Andrographis stenophylla Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Narrow-Leaf Chiretta is an erect subshrub,
with stem 4-angled. Leaves are opposite, linear, less than 2.5 cm long,
hairless. Flowers are borne in elongate racemes, sometimes nearly
panicle-like, but the flowers distant. Flower-stalks are mostly nearly
as long as the calyx. Sepals are hairless, lineolate. Flowers are pale
with dark red stripes, prominently 2-lipped. Stamens are 2; filaments
also more or less hairy; anthers prominently bearded at the base. Ovary
is 2-celled, ovules 2-6 in each cell; style slender; stigma minutely
bifid. Capsules are hairless, linear-oblong; seeds hard, deeply
rugosely pitted, hairless. Narrow-Leaf Chiretta is endemic to
Peninsular India. Flowering: September-December.
| Identification credit: P. Samydurai, S.Santhoshkumar | Photographed in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu. |
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