| Lanceleaf Camel Thistle |
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| File size | 258259 |
| Original date | 8/18/18 4:31 PM |
| Resolution | 3722 x 3489 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 165.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Tricholepis stewartii Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Lanceleaf Camel Thistle is a very distinctive plant,
with rigid leafy branches, with stalkless, lanceshaped leaves about 4
cm long, rather leathery, with tapering tips. Leaves are quite
hairless, veins are not prominent, and the edges are minutely toothed.
Flower-heads are 2.5 cm across, carried on short stalks. Involucral
bracts are needle-shaped, from an ovate woolly base. Inner ones are up
to 2 cm long. Pappus is 8 mm long, pale, brown. Lanceleaf Camel Thistle
is found in Pakistan, West Himalaya.
| Identification credit: Sunit Singh | Photographed in Paddar valley, Jammu and Kashmir. |
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