| Nilgiri Actephila |
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| File size | 648276 |
| Original date | 1/30/16 1:07 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 40.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Actephila excelsa Family: Phyllanthaceae (Amla family)
Synonyms: Actephila zeylanica, Actephila thomsonii, Actephila neilgherrensis
Synonyms: Actephila zeylanica, Actephila thomsonii, Actephila neilgherrensis
Nilgiri Actephila is a shrub or a small tree, with
young stem, bracts and sepals bristly. Leaves are 7-20 x 2-5 cm,
lanceshaped to inverted-lanceshaped, pointed at tip, narrowed at base;
leaf-stalks 0.5-1 cm long. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, clustered;
male many, short-stalked; female 1-2, long-stalked. Male flowers:
Flower-stalks 0.3-0.4 cm long. Sepals 5, hairy without. Petals 5,
smaller than calyx, white; disc lobed. Stamens 3-6, attached on the
disc, filaments united to form a gonophore; pistillode present within
gonophore. Female flowers: Flower-stalk 1-1.3 cm long. Ovary ovoid,
0.4-0.5 cm long, 0.3-0.4 cm diam, 3-celled; ovules 2 in each cell;
styles 3, each again 2-fid to form 6-stigmatic lobes, lobes papillate.
Nilgiri Actephila is found in Peninsular India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam. Flowering:
April-May.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu. |
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