| Himalayan Spurless Columbine |
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| Original date | 6/14/11 6:19 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
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| Focal length | 6.72mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 3.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX L21 |
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Botanical name: Paraquilegia gangotriana Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Synonyms: Paraquilegia microphylla sensu J.R.Drumm. & Hutch.
Synonyms: Paraquilegia microphylla sensu J.R.Drumm. & Hutch.
Himalayan Spurless Columbine is a very distinctive
small plant growing in rock crevices, often forming large clumps. It
sports delicate, somewhat pendulous white, blue or lilac flowers and
rather glaucous ferny leaves. Flowers are borne singly, cup-shaped,
1.5-4.0 cm across, with ovate petals. Flowers are borne in slender
leafless stems up to 18 cm long. Bracts are 2, linear-lanceshaped. Leaves
grow all at the base, long-stalked, three-forked, with 9 leaflest.
Leaflets are flabellate, rhomboid or obovate-wedge-shaped, 5-13 x 8-15
mm, 3-partite, deeply 3-sect, 3-toothed or 3-lobed; lobes entire or 2
3-lobuled; ultimate lobules linear-oblong, oblong-inverted-lanceshaped,
oblong-obovate or obovate, 1.0-3.2 x 0.2-1.3 mm, hairless or glaucous.
Himalayan Spurless Columbine is found in the Himalayas, from Afghanistan,
Bhutan, Kashmir to Sikkim, China, Nepal, at altitudes of 2800-5400 m.
Flowering: June-September.
| Identification credit: Suresh Rana, J.M. Garg | Photographed in Paddar Valley, Jammu & Kashmir. |
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