| Nilgiri Senecio |
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| File size | 80730 |
| Original date | 8/30/14 1:09 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Senecio neelgherryanus Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Nilgiri Senecio is a greenish white, perennial,
stout, hairy herb. Stems are 30-50 cm high, round. Leaves are greyish
green, oblong to lanceshaped, blunt, toothed, 7-12.5 x 1-1.5 cm, rough
on the upper surface, white velvety beneath, 1-nerved, eared.
Flower-heads are daisy-like, 1.2 cm in diameter bracteolate, many on
long stalks. Involucre is greyish green, bell-shaped, 1 cm long, hairy.
Bracts are 30-40, somewhat pointed, with broad, rough nerve. Ray
florets are 10-15, linear-oblong, spreading. Disc florets are numerous.
Seed-pods are cylindrical, 2.5-3 mm long, strongly ribbed, scabrid.
Pappus of white hairs. Nilgiri Senecio is endemic to Southern Western
Ghats.
| Identification credit: Santhan P. | Photographed in Thadiyandamol, Karnataka. |
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