| Kanara Kurinji |
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| File size | 577492 |
| Original date | 3/2/16 1:10 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Strobilanthes cuspidatus Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Endopogon cuspidatus, Endopogon versicolor, Phlebophyllum versicolor
Synonyms: Endopogon cuspidatus, Endopogon versicolor, Phlebophyllum versicolor
Kanara Kurinji is a large shrub with stems round;
branchlets adpressed-white woolly. Leaves up to 15 x 6 cm, ovate,
tapering, entire, base pointed, hairless; lateral nerves 7-10 pairs.
Spikes 3-5 cm long, interrupted, on trichotomously branched
flower-cluster-stalk; bracts 2-4, 2 x 0.5 cm, lanceshaped,
glandular-hairy. Flowers few; calyx 7 mm long, lobes subulate,
glandular-hairy; flower 25 mm long, blue; staminal filaments hairless.
Capsule 16 mm long, stalked, hairless; seeds round, hairy.
Kanara Kurinji is endemic to Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Latheri Forest, Vellore Dist. Tamil Nadu. |
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