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| Original date | 8/12/17 9:33 AM |
| Resolution | 4496 x 3000 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Pedicularis megalantha Family: Orobanchaceae (Broomrape family)
Large-Flower Pedicularis is an annual, herb 6-45 cm
tall, not drying black. Flowers are usually red-rose, tube 3-6 cm, 2-4
times as long as sepal-cup; galea bent at a right angle at tip, beak
circular, 1.2-1.4 cm. Lower lip is completely enveloping galea, 2.5-3.5
cm wide, fringed with hairs. Anterior filament pair velvet-hairy.
Flower-stalks are 5-12 mm, sepal-cup oblong, velvet-hairy, less than
1/3 cut; sepals 5, unequal. Inflorescences are up to more than 30 cm;
bracts leaflike. Stems are clustered or single, becoming hairless.
Basal leaves usually wither early. Stem leaves are few; leaf-stalk 4-6
cm; leaf blade linear-oblong, 5-7 x 2-3.5 cm, below sparsely white
scurfy, above sparsely finely velvet-hairy, pinnately divided into 7-12
pairs of segments, oblong-ovate to triangular-lanceshaped,
sinuate-toothed. Capsules are ovoid-lanceshaped, about 3 cm x 9 mm.
Large-Flower Pedicularis is found in swampy places at forest margins,
on damp grassy slopes, at altitudes of 2300-4200 m, in the Himalayas,
from Kashmir to Bhutan, NE India, SE Tibet. Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: Dipankar Borah | Photographed in Tawang distt, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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