| Purple Meadow Rue |
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| File size | 284378 |
| Original date | 9/7/11 9:21 AM |
| Resolution | 2616 x 1962 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Thalictrum reniforme Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Purple Meadow Rue is a beautiful Meadow-Rue from
East Himalayas, with unusually large purple flowers. Plant is 0.8-1.5 m
tall, glandular velvet-hairy. Stems are branched. Basal leaves wither
away at maturity. Stem leaves, carried on 2-6 cm long stalks, are
3-pinnate, about 20 cm. Leaflets are broadly ovate, circular-ovate, or
rhombic-obovate, 1.2-2.5 × 1.5-3.2 cm, herbaceous, glandular velvety
below, base rounded or heart-shaped, margin 3-lobed. Flowers are borne
in panicles 20-30 cm across. Flower-stalks are 0.8-2.5 cm, glandular
hairy. Sepals are 4, purple-pink, ovate or orbicular-ovate, 9-13 ×
6-10 mm. Stamens are many, about 8 mm, with threadlike filaments.
Anthers are yellow, linear, 3-4 mm, with mucronate tips. Carpels are
15-20, style about 1.5 mm, slightly longer than ovary, stigma oblong.
Seed-pods are glandular hairy, obliquely narrowly obovoid, compressed,
about 6 × 2.6 mm. Purple Meadow Rue is found in Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim
and parts of China, at altitudes of 3100-3700 m. Flowering:
July-October.
| Identification credit: Pravir Deshmukh | Photographed in Tawang District, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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