| Heartleaf Spinefruit Vine |
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| File size | 779925 |
| Original date | 10/2/11 2:23 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 170.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Ayenia grandifolia Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Synonyms: Byttneria grandifolia, Byttneria aspera, Byttneria nepalensis
Synonyms: Byttneria grandifolia, Byttneria aspera, Byttneria nepalensis
Heartleaf Spinefruit Vine is a big climbing shrub with
branchlets sparsely finely velvet-hairy when young. Leaf-stalks are 2-8
cm, hairy; leaf blade broadly ovate, heart-shaped, or nearly round,
7-23 x 5.5-16 cm, below white finely velvet-hairy, above hairless,
basal veins 5, base heart-shaped, margin entire, tip blunt or pointed.
Flowers are reddish, minute, 4-6 mm across, borne in leaf axils, in
much-branched umbel-like cymes. Petals are yellowish white, and
purple-red above, tip 2-lobed, with long strap-shaped appendix, nearly
as long as sepals. Sepals are ovate, about 2 mm, finely velvet-hairy,
tip pointed. Capsule are spherical or ovoid-spherical, 3-4 cm in
diameter, spiny, spines short and robust, finely velvet-hairy.
Heartleaf Spinefruit Vine is is found in open forests, valley
streamsides, at altitudes of 200-300 m, in NE India, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, China. Flowering:
May-December.
| Identification credit: M. Sawmliana | Photographed in Thenhlum, Lunglei district, Mizoram. |
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