| Kerala Snake Root |
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| File size | 200044 |
| Original date | 11/26/17 1:50 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Ophiorrhiza roxburghiana Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Kerala Snake Root is an erect subshrub, with stem
finely velvet-hairy. Flowers are born at branch-ends, in hairy cymes,
on flower-cluster-stalk about 3 cm long. Bracteoles are linear,
sparsely velvet-hairy. Sepal-tube is round, sepals lanceshaped. Flowers
are white, 2.5-4 cm, velvet-hairy, tube slender funnel-shaped above
hairy inside, petals large broadly ovate pointed, capsule hairy. Leaves
are elliptic-lanceshaped, tapering, base wedge-shaped, hairless except
the nerves below and leaf-stalks when young, up to 15 x 5 cm. Stipules
are large ovate or ovate-oblong entire or 2-fid. Kerala Snake Root
is endemic to Southern Western Ghats. Flowering: December-January.
| Identification credit: Akhilesh | Photographed in Eravikulam National Park, Distt. Idukki, Kerala. |
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