| Western Ghats Litsea |
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| File size | 185698 |
| Original date | 9/13/14 1:06 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
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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: Litsea wightiana Family: Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Western Ghats Litsea is a tree with branchlets round and
velvet-hairy. Leaves are simple, alternate, spirally arranged.
Leaf-stalks is up to 2.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section,
velvety. Leaves are 4.5-15 x 2-9 cm, elliptic, tip pointed to attenuate
rarely blunt, base narrow, margin entire and slightly recurved,
velvet-hairy beneath, somewhat leathery, midrib raised above, secondary
nerves 6-8 pairs, tertiary nerves horizontally percurrent.
Inflorescence are umbellules in racemes, carried on 1.5 cm long
peduncle. Flowers are unisexual, stalkless. Berry is ellipsoid, 1.5 cm
across, accresecnt perianth to about the middle. Western Ghats Litsea is
endemic to Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: Udayan Punakkal | Photographed at Chikamagalur-Kemmangudi Road, Karnataka. |
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