| Pygmy Bishop's Hat |
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| File size | 195769 |
| Original date | 9/4/19 9:37 PM |
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| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 25.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Mitrasacme pygmaea Family: Loganiaceae (Logania family)
Synonyms: Mitrasacme chinensis, Mitrasacme lutea, Mitrasacme galiifolia
Synonyms: Mitrasacme chinensis, Mitrasacme lutea, Mitrasacme galiifolia
Pygmy Bishop's Hat is a small annual herb up to 20 cm
tall. Its leaves are oval to lance-shaped and slightly rough in
texture. Flowers are white, trumpet-shaped, and borne on stems up to
3.2 cm long. They are produced in clusters at or near the ends of the
branches. Flower-stalks are 5-9 mm. Calyx is 1.5-2.8 mm, sepals
narrowly triangular, as long as tube. Flowers are white, pale yellow or
rarely bluish white, bell-shaped, 3-8 mm, inside often sparsely
bearded, petals nearly round, up to 1.5 mm. Stamens do not protrude
out. The fruit is a small egg-shaped capsule, 2-3 mm long. Pygmy
Bishop's Hat is native to Asia-Tropical and Asia-Temperate.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. |
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