| Water Marshweed |
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| Original date | 1/11/18 12:03 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Limnophila aquatica Family: Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Synonyms: Cyrilla aquatica, Limnophila racemosa, Diceros aquaticus
Synonyms: Cyrilla aquatica, Limnophila racemosa, Diceros aquaticus
Water Marshweed is an erect or partly floating herb,
with stem round, up to 5.5 long, hairless. Leaves are opposite,
whorled, lower feather-like dissected, upper oblong-lanceshaped, 1.5-4
x 0.2-1 cm, flat at base, sawtoothed at margin, somewhat pointed at
tip, hairless, palmately 3-5 nerved, 3-prominent, 3-obscure, stalkless.
Flowers are borne in spikes or racemes in leaf-axils or at branch-ends,
up to 12.5 cm long, carried on flower-cluster-stalk 5.5 cm long.
Flowers are about 7 mm across, white, slightly pink, stalked to
stalkless. Sepals 5, nearly equal, linear-lanceshaped, 2,5 mm,
capillary at tip. Flowers ar 2-lipped; lower lip 3-lobed; upper lip
2-lobed, pink striped, inside hairy. Stamens are 4; filament 1-3 mm;
anther spherical, 0.4 mm long. Capsules are spherical, 3 mm across.
Water Marshweed is native to South India.
Flowering: November-Februray.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim, J.M. Garg | Photographed in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. |
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