| Mizoram Vernonia |
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| File size | 625121 |
| Original date | 10/4/18 7:30 AM |
| Resolution | 4928 x 3264 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Vernonia parryae Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Mizoram Vernonia is an undershrub with branches thin,
grooved, rusty velvet-hairy towards upper end. Leaves are elliptic,
somewhat linear, often curved, tapering, minutely toothed, up to 20 x
2.5 cm, narrowed into leaf-stalk. Flower-heads are borne in leaf-axils,
in about 20-flowered cymes, florets purple. Bracts are 1-2.5 cm long,
resembling floral leaf, rusty velvet-hairy towards base. Involucral
bracts are laxly hairy outside, scarious margined. Achenes are about
2-5 mm long, with white hairs, costate. Pappus hairs are white. Mizoram
Vernonia is known only from Mizoram. Flowering: October-January.
| Identification credit: J.M. Garg | Photographed in Vaphai area, Mizoram. |
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