| Nilgiri Ghost Flower |
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| File size | 162126 |
| Original date | 11/8/26 12:06 PM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.27mm |
| Exposure time | 1/50s |
| Aperture | 1.75 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Redmi 13 5G |
| Sensor type | Undefined |
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Botanical name: Campbellia cytinoides Family: Orobanchaceae (Broomrape family)
Synonyms: Christisonia neilgherrica, Campbellia neilgherrica, Phelypaea cytinoides
Synonyms: Christisonia neilgherrica, Campbellia neilgherrica, Phelypaea cytinoides
Nilgiri Ghost Flower is a root-parasite, leafless,
hairless herb. Flowers are 8-12, densely arranged in racemes, yellow.
Flowers are funnel-shaped, hypogynous, about 3.4 cm long, with a
2-lipped limb. Stamens are 4, didynamous, not protruding out, style
thread-like, persistent; stigma 2-lobed. Sepal-cup is free, persistent,
tubular, 5-angled, 2 cm long, with a 2-lipped limb; upper lip 2-lobed
and lower lip 3-lobed, all lobes short, broad and blunt. Flower-stalks
are thick, angular, erect, 1.3-1.8 cm long, arising from the axils of
ovate-oblong, blunt scales, with two bracts below the middle. Bracts
oblong-spoon-shaped, pointed, veined, and toothed at the tip, about 1.3
cm long. Flowering stem is thick, bluntly angular, scaly, 7.5-10 cm
long. Lower scales ovate, very blunt, densely overlapping, about 1.1 cm
long; middle scales more distant. Capsule is spherical, about 1 cm in
diameter, enclosed within the persistent sepal-cup, 1-celled, 2-valved.
Nilgiri Ghost Flower is found in Nilgiri Hills and Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Pampadum shola national park, Munnar, Kerala. |
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