| Dehradun Wood Sorrel |
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| Original date | 6/18/05 10:52 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 13.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/43s |
| Aperture | 4.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Oxalis dehradunensis Family: Oxalidaceae (Wood sorrel family)
Synonyms: Oxalis intermedia A.Rich., Oxalis richardiana
Synonyms: Oxalis intermedia A.Rich., Oxalis richardiana
Dehradun Wood Sorrel is a stemless herb forming
bulbous bases without rootstock. Leaf-stalks are up to 20 cm long above
joint; leaflets nearly equal, inverted-triangular, incised halfway,
1.5-7 x 2-8 cm, often with 2 orange calli in notch, dotted, hairless,
somewhat glaucous below. Flowers are borne in 5-12 flowered umbels, on
flower-cluster-stalks up to 25 cm long. Bracts are 2, ovate, about 0.5
mm long; flower-stalks thread-like, up to 2 cm long above basal joint.
Sepals are oblong-lanceshaped, blunt, indistinctly 3-5 nerved; apical
calli 2, about 1 mm long, orange. Petals are narrowly
inverted-triangular, obliquely flat, pinkish or reddish purple with
greenish base, crumpled soon after anthesis. Filaments including basal
fused portion 2.5-3 or 4-5 mm long, finely velvet-hairy. Dehradun Wood
Sorrel is native to the Caribbean, naturalized in India.
| Identification credit: Prashant Awale, J.M. Garg, Gurcharan Singh | Photographed at Nainital, Uttarakhand & Purundar Fort, Maharashtra. |
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