| Small-Flowered Cinquefoil |
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| Original date | 6/10/10 11:48 AM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Sibbaldia micropetala Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Synonyms: Potentilla albifolia, Potentilla micropetala, Argentina micropetala
Synonyms: Potentilla albifolia, Potentilla micropetala, Argentina micropetala
Small-Flowered Cinquefoil is a white velvety herb,
up to a foot tall. Leaves are odd- pinnate 3-4.5 cm long. Leaflets are
5-9 stalkless, their size decreasing downward from the terminal one,
obovate-round, with 3-16 glandular tipped teeth or lobes along the
margins, white velvety below, velvety above with short dark brown
hairs.
Flower arise singly, 4-8 mm in diameter. Sepals are long ovate, tip
long-pointed. False sepals are elliptic-lanceshaped, slightly shorter
than sepals, densely white velvety below, tip blunt or pointed. Petals
are yellow or pale orange, oblong-lanceshaped, shorter than or equaling
sepals, tip blunt. Stamens are 5, alternating with sepals; filaments
short. Style is lateral. Achenes are brown, ovoid, partly glabrous and
partly shallowly grooved. Small-Flowered Cinquefoil is found in the
Himalayas, Kashmir to W. China, at altitudes of 3200-4000 m. Flowering:
June-August.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed in Tawang distt, Arunachal Pradesh & Apharwat, Kashmir. |
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