| Purple-Hairy Ceropegia |
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| File size | 504394 |
| Original date | 8/14/17 4:36 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/50s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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| Metering Mode | $meteringMode |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 70D |
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Botanical name: Ceropegia fimbriifera Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Purple-Hairy Ceropegia is an erect tuber-forming
herbs, with stem round, hairless, internodes 2-4 cm long. Leaves are
simple, linear, up to 12 x 0.5 cm, base and tip pointed, margin entire,
1-nerved, becoming hairless; leaf-stalk absent or very minute. Flowers
are greenish-yellow, borne singly only flower-stalks about 5 mm long,
hairless. Bracts are subulate, 1-2 mm long; sepals 5, linear, about 3
mm long. Flower tube more or less 2 cm long, inflated below, tubular
portion about 1 cm long, hairless inside. Petals are 5, lanceate, about
1 cm long, fused at tip, purple-hairy inside at base; corona lobes 10,
2-seriate, outer lobes bifid, subulate, divergent, inner lobes
spoon-shaped; anther without appendages, pollen masses waxy; ovaries 2,
style-tip flat. Purple-Hairy Ceropegia is endemic to Southern Western
Ghats. Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith, C. Rajasekar | Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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