| Five-Angled Pipewort |
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| File size | 116260 |
| Original date | 2/12/08 2:19 AM |
| Resolution | 3072 x 2304 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 9.84mm |
| Exposure time | 1/40s |
| Aperture | 3.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. |
| Camera model | SP550UZ |
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Botanical name: Eriocaulon quinquangulare Family: Eriocaulaceae (Pipewort family)
Synonyms: Sphaerochloa quinquangularis
Synonyms: Sphaerochloa quinquangularis
Five-Angled Pipewort is a slender clustered annual
herb up to 20 cm tall. Leaves are up to 6 x 0.6 cm, curved, tapering,
hairless. Flower-cluster-stalks are numerous, 10-30 cm high,
threadlike, 5-6 ribbed, sheath up to 5 cm long, limb small. Head 6 x 5
mm, ovoid; involucral bracts 2 x 2 mm, obovate, toothed at tip,
straw-coloured; floral bracts 2.5 x 1.2 mm, wedge-shaped, abruptly
tapering, black, hairless. Female sepals are 3, equal, linear, sparsely
hairy, black; petals linear-oblong, hairy, hyaline, glandulose; seeds
oblong, appendages entire or cut up into rectangular strips on
transverse walls. Male sepals black, united into a split sheath,
minutely hairy, lobes flat; petal equal, hairy; anthers black.
Five-Angled Pipewort is found in Assam; Bangladesh; India; Myanmar;
Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam. It is found throughout
Eastern Ghats and in lower Himalaya.
| Identification credit: Mayur Nandikar, Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Dandeli, Karnataka & Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. |
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