| Golden Himalayan Spike |
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| File size | 250492 |
| Original date | 4/4/14 1:54 PM |
| Resolution | 1500 x 1125 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 85.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D80 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Phlomoides superba Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Eremostachys superba, Eremostachys laciniata var. superba
Synonyms: Eremostachys superba, Eremostachys laciniata var. superba
Golden Himalayan Spike is a rare, threatened,
handsome Himalayan plant. Root is thick, woody, vertical; collar woolly
or scarcely so. Stems are simple, 40-80 cm, usually with a thin
indumentum of simple hairs. Leaves are oblong to ovate in outline,
simple and rounded toothed to pinnately cut with lobed to sawtoothed
margins. Blade is about 10-20 x 5-10 cm, on both surfaces with a sparse
indumentum of short or longer simple hairs; leaf-stalk upto about 10
cm. Flowers are borne in 7-14 spikes. Spikes are composed of distant,
8-12-flowered clusters, which are white woolly. Bracts are 1/2-2/3
length of calyx, ovate-lanceshaped to lanceshaped, spinulose. Calyx is
broadly ovate-bell-shaped, 12-15 mm, somewhat leathery, teeth ending in
1-2 mm spines. Flowers are 2.5-3.0 cm, yellow; upper lip hairy and
white bearded with simple hairs only; lower lip subequal to or longer
than upper, sometimes with a very broad median lobe; tube included in
calyx, without an annulus. Nutlets 7 x 3.5 mm, brown black, trigonous.
Golden Himalayan Spike is found in Western Himalayas, Flowering:
March-April.
Medicinal uses:
Gujjar tribe use its tubers
for increasing lactation in their cattle.
Medicinal uses:
Gujjar tribe use its tubers
for increasing lactation in their cattle. | Identification credit: Amber Srivastava | Photographed in Botanical Survey of India, Dehradun. |
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