| Short-Leaf Pearly Everlasting |
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| File size | 555027 |
| Original date | 10/14/15 2:56 PM |
| Resolution | 2028 x 1521 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 19.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1500s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Average |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Anaphalis brevifolia Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Anaphalis bournei, Gnaphalium brevifolium
Synonyms: Anaphalis bournei, Gnaphalium brevifolium
Short-Leaf Pearly Everlasting is a well branched
herb; branchlets slender, white fluffy, old leaves clustered at base.
Leaves linear to (inverted-)lanceshaped, 1.5 x 0.4 cm, woolly,
1-nerved, base narrowed and decurrent, tip pointed. Corymbs at
branch-ends, to 3 cm wide, with upto 20 flower-heads;
flower-cluster-stalk to 2 cm. Flower-heads are heterogamous, white, 5
mm wide; stalk 1.2 cm; receptacle less than 3 mm wide. Phyllaries
3-seriate, white; outer ones ovate-oblong, 3.5 mm, sub-pointed; inner
ones oblong-lanceshaped, 4 mm, blunt. Pappus 15-20, 3 mm long. Bisexual
florets 30-40 in 3-or 4-series. Flower tube 3 mm; lobes 5. Stamens 5.
Style 3 mm, somewhat protruding. Pistillate florets 10-20 in 2-or
3-series. Flower-tube 2.5 mm; teeth 5. Style 3 mm, protruding. Achene
ovoid, 3-4 angled, scaly. Short-Leaf Pearly Everlasting is found in
endemic to Southern Western Ghats. Flowering: July-September.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu. |
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