| Rock-Dwelling Thorowax |
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| Original date | 8/15/06 11:37 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
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| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/181s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Bupleurum rupestre Family: Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Synonyms: Bupleurum nigrocarpum, Bupleurum falcatum var. afghanicum
Synonyms: Bupleurum nigrocarpum, Bupleurum falcatum var. afghanicum
Rock-Dwelling Thorowax is a perennial herb 20-50 cm
tall, and is closely similar to
Long-Stem Thorowax. Flowers
are dark purple to black, in compound umbels at branch end and in leaf
axils,
carried on flower-cluster-stalks 3-10 cm long. Rays are 2-6, unequal,
0.5-6 cm
long, bracts 1-4 per involucre, lanceshaped to ovate, 5-32 mm long.
long-pointed,
unequal 7-11-veined. Umbellets are 15-50 flowered, corymb-like;
flower-stalks
1-4 mm long. Bracteoles are 6-10 per involucel, green,
ovate-lanceshaped to oval,
5-10 mm long, long-pointed, overlapping, basally fused. The umbellets
clearly
separate it from
Long-Stem Thorowax which has
only 8-15-flowered umbellets with only 5 bracteoles per involucel.
Petals are
oval to obovate. Rock-Dwelling Thorowax is found in Afghanistan,
Pakistan, West
Himalaya, Kashmir to Uttarakhand, at altitudes of 2600-4250 m.
Flowering: July-Ocober.
| Identification credit: Sunit Singh | Photographed in Valley of Flowers & Madhmaheswar valley, Uttarakhand. |
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