| Travancore Top-Fruit Tree |
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| File size | 376515 |
| Original date | 8/28/23 4:55 PM |
| Resolution | 2656 x 3984 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 75.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/161s |
| Aperture | 22.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 1500D |
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Botanical name: Nothopegia travancorica Family: Anacardiaceae (Cashew family)
Travancore Top-Fruit Tree is a small trees with
branches rusty woolly. Leaves are elliptic-oblong, 9-16 x 2.5-4 cm,
with a tail-tapering, midrib velvet-hairy at base, leathery;
leaf-stalks 1-1.2 cm long, rusty velvet-hairy. Flowers are borne in
racemes in leaf-axils, 1 cm long. Male flowers are 2 mm across.
Sepal-cup 4-lobed; sepals broadly ovate-lanceshaped, 2 x 0.5 mm,
hairless with 5-6 thick, dark swellings on ventral side. Petals are 4,
oblong, 2.5 x 0.8 mm, hairless above, hairy at base. Stamens are 4, 2
mm long; filaments hairy; anthers arrow shaped, sparsely hairy. Disc is
4-lobed, 0.8 mm in diameter, hairless. Female flowers are 5 mm across.
Sepals and petals are as in male flowers. Stamens much shorter, 0.8 mm
long. Ovary 1.5 mm in diameter, stalkless; style indistinct; stigma
slightly lobed. Drupes are oval, 1 x 1.8 cm, compressed. Travancore
Top-Fruit Tree is endemic to Southern Western Ghats, rising up up to
1000 m, in karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Flowering: January.
| Identification credit: Navendu Pagé | Photographed near Vannappuram Thodupuzha, Idukki, Kerala. |
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