| Urn-Flower Creeper |
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| File size | 655761 |
| Original date | 10/9/21 5:31 PM |
| Resolution | 2576 x 1932 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 2.13mm |
| Exposure time | 1/99s |
| Aperture | 2.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | samsung |
| Camera model | SM-A315F |
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Botanical name: Heterostemma urceolatum Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Oianthus urceolatus
Synonyms: Oianthus urceolatus
Urn-Flower Creeper is a perennial, milky twinning
undershrub. Roots are wiry, branched. Stem is slender, sparsely hairy
to hairless, leaves 2-6 x 2-3 cm opposite, stalked, ovate to oblong,
sometime heart-shaped, 4-7 nerved, fringed with hairs, finely
velvet-hairy above and on nerves beneath. Flowers are borne in
4-5-flowered cymes. Flowers are 1-3 cm long, 7-8 mm across, dark brown
to red, ovoid-urn-shaped, depressed spherical, swollen at the base,
contracted at tip, petals 5, short, nearly equal to the length of the
tube. Fruit is a pair of follicles, slender, straight, round, pericarp
thin. Urn-Flower Creeper is found in Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Flowering: July-September.
| Identification credit: Aakash Raut, Suhan Moholkar | Photographed in Satara distt., Maharashtra. |
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