| Narrowleaf Golden Cudweed |
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| Original date | 11/25/17 4:13 PM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
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| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Helichrysum hookerianum Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Helichrysum buddlejoides var. hookerianum, Gnaphalium hookerianum
Synonyms: Helichrysum buddlejoides var. hookerianum, Gnaphalium hookerianum
Narrowleaf Golden Cudweed is a shrub or undershrub, up
to 4 m tall, closely similar to
Butterfly-Bush Golden
Cudweed.
It is mostly easily differentiated by its leaves which are thin,
oblong-inverted-lanceshaped, densely woolly below, with nerves not
prominent on the underside. Flower-heads are borne in dense corymbs at
branch-ends, in spherical clusters, 2-2.5 mm across. Involucral bracts
are yellow, 4-many-seriate, enveloped in woolly tomentum;
outer obovate, brown at base; inner inverted-lanceshaped, brown at
basal end. Ray florets female, with thread-like flower, 1-2.5 mm long,
disc florets bisexual, 1-2 mm long, 5-toothed. Narrowleaf Golden
Cudweed is found on Deccan Plateau, up to 2500 m elevation, in Tamil
Nadu and Karnataka, and Sri Lanka. Flowering: March.
| Identification credit: Premkumar M. | Photographed in Eravikulam National Park, Munnar, Kerala. |
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