| Many-Flowered Gymnostachyum |
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| File size | 325651 |
| Original date | 11/15/15 9:50 AM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Gymnostachyum polyanthum Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Cryptophragmium polyanthum
Synonyms: Cryptophragmium polyanthum
Many-Flowered Gymnostachyum is a herb bearing
flowering stems. Stem is very short, finely velvet-hairy. Leaves are
elliptic-ovate, 4-12 x 2-5.5 cm, base sublyrate, narrowing into the
stalk, margin nearly entire, tip somewhat pointed, non lineolate,
papery, leaf-stalk about 3 cm long. Flowering stem is up to 25 cm long,
sharply 4-angled (4-winged). Flowers are borne in condensed cymes,
forming false raceme. Flower are pale purple. Capsule are oblong,
cylindric, about 2 cm long. Seeds about 14, dotted. Many-Flowered
Gymnostachyum is found in India and Sri Lanka. Flowering: April-July.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma | Photographed in Agumbe, Karnataka. |
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