| Hawkweed Gerbera Daisy |
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| File size | 506918 |
| Original date | 6/2/18 8:24 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Piloselloides hirsuta Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Gerbera piloselloides, Gerbera hirsuta, Gerbera amabilis
Synonyms: Gerbera piloselloides, Gerbera hirsuta, Gerbera amabilis
Hawkweed Gerbera Daisy is a perennial herb with
rootstock thick, silky villose. Leaves are all at the base, elliptic or
obovate-oblong, entire or repand-finely toothed, rounded at tip,
narrowed at the base, 5-12 x 2.5-5 cm, hairless above, softly villose
beneath; leaf-stalk 3 - 4 cm long. Flowering stems are 1-4, 20-35 cm
long, 1-headed, thickened below the head, hairy-woolly with soft long
hairs. Flower-heads are 2-2.5 cm long, erect, involucral bracts
overlapping, linear-lanceshaped, pointed, tawny woolly. Ray florets are
uniseriate, sometimes purplish outside and white (sometimes tinged
purple) inside, nearly as long as the involucral bracts; lip 2-partite.
Disc florets 2-two-lipped. Anther bases tailed. Style branches linear.
Achenes are 8-9 mm long, slightly compressed, beaked, papillose, 5-6
-ribbed. Pappus subrufous or reddish, bristly, as long as the achenes.
Hawkweed Gerbera Daisy is found in E. Himalayas, at altitudes of
1500-3500 m, in NE India, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Tropical S. Africa,
Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Yeman. Flowering: May-August.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed at Shirui hill, Ukhrul, Manipur. |
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