| Nepal Fairy Grass |
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| File size | 696343 |
| Original date | 9/6/12 10:08 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 3.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A495 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Miscanthus nepalensis Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Eulalia nepalensis, Erianthus nepalensis
Synonyms: Eulalia nepalensis, Erianthus nepalensis
Nepal Fairy Grass is a clustered perennial grass
with very short rhizomes. Stems (stems) are up to 1.5 m tall.
Leaf-blades are flat, 30-50 cm long, 6-10 mm wide, narrowed at the
base. Its yellowish flowers appear as drooping panicles and are up to
15 cm long. Spikelets are 2-2.5 mm long, the callus bearded with
golden-brown hairs 3-4 times as long as the spikelet; lower glume
brown, notched, hairy on the margins in the lower half with hairs of
unequal length, the longest 2-3 times as long as the glume; upper lemma
bitoothed, with a straight or flexuous awn 9-13 mm long. Nepal Fairy
Grass is found in
| Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed in Sirmaur & Kullu districts, Himachal Pradesh. |
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