| Elegant Musk-Mustard |
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| File size | 240622 |
| Original date | 6/16/14 11:36 AM |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1920 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Chorispora sabulosa Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard family)
Synonyms: Chorispora elegans, Chorispermum elegans
Synonyms: Chorispora elegans, Chorispermum elegans
Elegant Musk-Mustard is a small rosette-forming
perennial herb 5-25 cm long, with narrow shallowly pinnately-lobed or
almost entire leaves and slender stems bearing 10-25-flowered racemes
of pink, violet or white flowers. Flowers are about 1.5 cm across;
petals 6-10 mm, shallowly notched; sepals half as long. Leaves are 2-6
cm, inverted-lanceshaped in outline with a rounded at branch-ends lobe
and short or long blunt lateral lobes, or almost entire,
glandular-hairy. Fruit is 1.5 cm, glandular-hairy, constricted between
seeds; style prominent. Elegant Musk-Mustard is found in Central Asia
to W. Himalaya, at altitudes of 3300-5000 m. Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed enroute to Bara-Lacha, Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,