| Rounded-Petal Yellow Star |
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| File size | 423969 |
| Original date | 6/15/14 11:54 AM |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1920 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ40 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Gagea bowes-lyonii Family: Liliaceae (Lily family)
Rounded-Petal Yellow Star is a delicate perennial herb,
single or growing in groups, tiny, thin, bending, 5-8 cm in height. It
was named in honor of the researcher of the flora of Himalayas, S.A.
Bowes Lyon. Flower-cluster-stalk is 2-6 cm in height, about 0.5 mm in
diameter. Basal leaf is single, hair-like, about 0.3-0.4 mm in
diameter, bending, longer than the inflorescence. Flower-cluster-stalk
leaves are alternate narrowly lanceshaped-linear, cuspidate, less than
half the length of the inflorescence, 2-2.5 mm broad. Flowers are borne
in 2-4-flowered lax cluster, on thin bending flower-stalks. Tepals are
4.8-6.3 mm long, nearly 1 mm broad, obovate, narrowed to the base,
hardly pointed, golden-yellow inside, greenish outside, inner tepals a
little bit longer, broader, tip rounded. Anthers are yellow, oblong,
0.8 mm long, dehiscence roundish 0.5 mm in diameter. Capsule obovate,
narrowed in a long stipe, less than half the length of the perianth.
Rounded-Petal Yellow Star is native to Pakistan to West Himalaya, at altitudes
of 2000-3000 m. Flowering: April-July.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Lahaul valley, Himachal Pradesh. |
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