| Chinese Snake Jasmine |
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| File size | 731703 |
| Original date | 11/17/19 12:22 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 3.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 2.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | GIONEE |
| Camera model | GIONEE A1 |
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Botanical name: Rhinacanthus beesianus Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Chinese Snake Jasmine is a shrubs up to 1.5 m tall.
Beautiful white flowers, with pinkish tinge, are borne in panicles at
branch-ends, 12-15 x 8-9 cm. Bracts are leaflike, lanceshaped, 0.8-1.2
x 0.3-0.4 cm. Flowers are stalked, sepals linear, about 10 x 1.5 mm,
velvet-hairy, 1-veined, tip pointed. Flowers are fragrant, outside
gland-tipped velvet-hairy; tube about 4 cm long, lower lip lobes are
elliptic, 2-2.5 cm; upper lip about 2 cm, tip 2-cleft. Stamens are
about 1 cm. Stems are 4-angled, nearly hairless. Leaf-stalks are 0-4
mm; leaf blade elliptic to narrowly obovate to inverted-lanceshaped,
20-24 x 6-8 cm, below hairless, above slightly velvet-hairy, secondary
veins 8-10 on each side of midvein, base narrowed and decurrent onto
leaf-stalk, margin slightly wavy to nearly entire, tip pointed. Chinese
Snake Jasmine is known only from Yunnan province in China and Myanmar,
but we found
it in Arunachal Pradesh in 2019. Flowering: August-November.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed on the banks of Siang River, East Siang distt., Arunachal Pradesh. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,