| Rough Wild Lavender |
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| File size | 518123 |
| Original date | 12/10/22 7:45 PM |
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| Flash | Flash fired, return not detected |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 32.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5600 |
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Botanical name: Coleus scaber Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Anisochilus scaber
Synonyms: Anisochilus scaber
Rough Wild Lavender is a herb with stem woody at base
and rooting at lower nodes. Flower-spikes are solitary or 3, oblong,
the middle one larger, up to 4 x 1.2 cm. Flowers are purple, throat
very hairy, filaments hairless. Sepal-cup is tubular, 4 mm long, finely
velvet-hairy. Leaves are oblong, blunt, base flat or blunt, densely
hoary woolly, rounded toothed-sawtoothed, up to 5 x 3 cm. Fruit is a
nutlet, erect. Seed 1, enclosed at the base of enlarged, persistent
calyx. Rough Wild Lavender is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
Flowering: September-December.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. |
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