| Prostrate Geophila |
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| File size | 672305 |
| Original date | 7/12/15 12:11 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Geophila repens Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Carinta repens, Geocardia cordata
Synonyms: Carinta repens, Geocardia cordata
Prostrate Geophila is a prostrate herbs with stem
slender, runner-like. Leaves are 1.5-2.5 x 1-2 cm, round or broadly
ovate to kidney-shaped, tip rounded or flat, papery, basally
5-7-nerved; leaf-stalk up to 5 cm long. Flowers are borne solitary or
in few-flowered umbels, flower-cluster-stalks to 4 cm long. Sepal tube
is short; sepals subulate, 3 mm long, persistent. Flowers are 1-1.5 cm
across, funnel-shaped, hairy inside, white; petals recurved,
ovate-pointed. Stamens are 5, not protruding. Ovary is 2-celled, ovule
1-per locule. Berry is about 7 mm across, spherical, scarlet. Seeds
plano-convex. Prostrate Geophila is widespread, and is found in Asia,
Africa and S. America.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma | Photographed in Hebri, Karnataka. |
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