| Obovate Himalayan Spurge |
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| File size | 270296 |
| Original date | 9/26/12 9:02 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G3 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Euphorbia maddenii Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Synonyms: Tithymalus maddenii
Synonyms: Tithymalus maddenii
Obovate Himalayan Spurge is a rising up or erect
hairless annual or sometimes perennial herb up to 30 cm tall, but more
commonly 10-20 cm tall, often becoming much-branched from the base.
Stern-leaves are alternate, stalkless, obovate-spoon-shaped to
inverted-lanceshaped, 0.5-3.7 x 0.2-1 cm, blunt, rounded or flat at the
tip, tapered to the base, entire, palminerved. Pseudumbels are 3-rayed,
the rays 4-5 times bifrd, pseudumbel-leaves 3, whorled, resembling the
upper stem-leaves but often somewhat broader; ray-leaves opposite,
somewhat obliquely ovate, elliptic-ovate, ovate-oblong,
triangular-ovate or nearly round, blunt or rounded at the tip,
wedge-shaped, rounded or flat at the base, entire, progressively
smaller distally. Cyathia are shortly stalked. Obovate Himalayan Spurge
is found in Pakistan to Central Himalaya, at altitudes of 1500-2600 m.
Flowering: April-June.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh, N.P. Balakrishnan | Photographed on Govindghat-Ghangria trail, Uttarakhand. |
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