| Spear-Leaf Buttercup |
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| Original date | 6/10/10 10:57 AM |
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| Focal length | 25.9mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
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Botanical name: Ranunculus pulchellus var. pulchellus Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Synonyms: Ranunculus nephelogenes, Ranunculus affinis var. tibeticus
Synonyms: Ranunculus nephelogenes, Ranunculus affinis var. tibeticus
Spear-Leaf Buttercup is a perennial herb with stems
10-25 cm, branched or simple. Flowers are borne singly at branch-ends,
1-1.6 cm across. Receptacle is hairless or sparsely finely
velvet-hairy. Sepals are 5, broadly ovate, 3.5-5 mm, below
velvet-hairy. Petals are 5, obovate, 6-8 x 4-6 mm, tip rounded. Stamens
are numerous, anthers narrowly oblong. Basal leaves are 4-9; leaf-stalk
1.2-10 cm, blade ovate, elliptic, oblong, lanceshaped, or
lanceshaped-linear, 0.9-3.7 cm x 4-14 mm, hairless, base broadly
wedge-shaped, or rounded, margin entire. tip somewhat blunt. Lower stem
leaves are long or short stalked, lanceshaped or lanceshaped-linear;
upper ones stalkless, lanceshaped-linear. Spear-Leaf Buttercup is
found in the Himalayas, at altitudes of 1700-5200 m, in Gansu, Qinghai,
Shanxi, Sichuan, S and C Xinjiang, Xizang, NW Yunnan Kazakhstan,
Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Siberia.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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