| Boneset-Leaf Inula |
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| File size | 767107 |
| Original date | 12/6/18 11:45 AM |
| Resolution | 3264 x 4928 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Duhaldea eupatorioides Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Inula eupatorioides, Helenium eupatoriodes
Synonyms: Inula eupatorioides, Helenium eupatoriodes
Boneset-Leaf Inula is a shrub, 1-2 m tall. Stems are
woolly. Leaves are reminiscent of Boneset plants, stalkless or with
leaf-stalk up to 5 mm, oblong or oblong-lanceshaped, 10-20 x 4-6 cm,
papery, densely velvet-hairy at least on veins below, green and
sparsely rough above, base rounded or narrow, margin remotely minutely
toothed, tip tapering. Flower-heads are yellow, borne in dense corymbs.
Ray florets are female, yellow; flower tube about 5 mm, blade 3-4 ×
1-1.4 mm. Disk florets are yellow, 4-6 mm in diameter. Achenes are
cylindric, about 2 mm, velvet-hairy. Pappus whitish yellow, brownish
tipped, slightly shorter than disk flowers, of about 20 bristles.
Boneset-Leaf Inula is found in the Himalayas, China, Bhutan, Laos,
Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, N Thailand, Vietnam, at altitudes of
1200-1800 m. Flowering: June-September.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Mizoram. |
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