| Indian Scent-Wort |
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| File size | 687404 |
| Original date | 10/2/21 9:32 AM |
| Resolution | 4032 x 3024 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 4.36mm |
| Exposure time | 1/389s |
| Aperture | 1.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | HMD Global |
| Camera model | Nokia 8.1 |
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Botanical name: Adenosma indiana Family: Plantaginaceae (Isabgol family)
Synonyms: Adenosma capitata, Stemodia capitata, Manulea indica
Synonyms: Adenosma capitata, Stemodia capitata, Manulea indica
Indian Scent-Wort is a strongly aromatic erect herb
with stem up to 45
cm tall, densely hairy. Flowers are bluish or violet; tube about 5 mm
long, cylindric, upper lip erect, 2-fid, lower spreading, 3-lobed.
Stamens are 4, didynamous; anther cells stipitate. Sepals are 5, 3-4 mm
long, lanceshaped, fringed with hairs, upper largest. Flowers are borne
in dense, branch-end bracteate cylindric heads, 1.5-3 cm long; bracts
linear. Leaves are opposite or whorled, 2-3.5 x 1-2 cm, ovate to
elliptic-ovate, base rounded, margin sawtoothed, tip pointed, hairy on
both sides, lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, stalkless. Capsules 3-4 x 2-2.5
mm, ellipsoid. Seeds about 0.5 mm long, ovoid-oblong, netveined. Indian
Scent-Wort is found in Tropical & Subtropical Asia, including the
Himalayas.
| Identification credit: Manoranjan Paramanik | Photographed in Purulia, West Bengal. |
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