| Smooth Justicia |
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| File size | 299621 |
| Original date | 10/25/15 8:12 AM |
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| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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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: Justicia glabra Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Rhaphidospora glabra, Gendarussa abyssinica
Synonyms: Rhaphidospora glabra, Gendarussa abyssinica
Smooth Justicia is a herb with a woody rootstock
but annual stems. Leaves are 7-10 x 4-6.5 cm, broadly ovate, tip
pointed, base rounded or wedge-shaped, upper stalkless; leaf-stalk 3
cm. Flowers are borne in panicles in leaf-axils and at branch-ends, up
to 15 cm long, glandular velvet-hairy; bracts and bracteoles 1.5 mm,
linear; sepals 4 mm, lanceshaped, puberulus; flower tube to 4 mm,
velvet-hairy, two-lipped, upper 5 mm, lower 8 mm, white with reddish
blotches; filaments 4 mm; ovary 1.5 mm, style 6 mm, hairy. Smooth
Justicia is found in South India and Tropical Africa. Flowering:
December-February.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma | Photographed in Savandurga, Karnataka. |
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