| Slender Bonnet Bellflower |
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| Original date | 9/3/11 10:13 AM |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| 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: Codonopsis gracilis Family: Campanulaceae (Bell flower family)
Synonyms: Leptocodon gracilis, Campanumoea gracilis
Synonyms: Leptocodon gracilis, Campanumoea gracilis
Slender Bonnet Bellflower is beautiful wildflower
from eastern Himalayas. Flowers are hanging on slender 1-5 cm long
stalks. They are blue or purple, 2.8-3.5 cm long. Flower-tube is about
4 mm in diameter, limb 1-1.5 cm across, petals triangular, 4-5 mm.
Calyx is hairless, tube 2-3 mm, sepals narrowly oblong, 5-8 x 1-2 mm.
Filaments are about 2 cm. Style about 2 cm. Plant is hairless
throughout except young leaves, fragrant. Stems are long, slender,
branched. Leaves are alternate, rarely those on branchlets opposite,
long-stalked, blade gray on the underside, green above, ovate-circular,
0.9-2.5 x 0.9-2.5 cm, membranous, base flat or blunt, margin
wavy-toothed, tip blunt. Inferior part of capsule semiglobose or
obconic, 4-5 mm; superior part conical or ovoid, 8-10 mm. Seeds are
red-brown, linear-oblong, 1.5-1.8 mm, smooth. Slender Bonnet Bellflower
is found in Eastern Himalayas (Nepal to Burma) at altitudes of
2000-2500 m. Flowering: August-October.
| Identification credit: Pravir Deshmukh | Photographed in Tawang Distt, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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