| Star Grass Lily |
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| File size | 168466 |
| Original date | 6/25/11 12:13 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Iphigenia stellata Family: Colchicaceae (Colchicum family)
Star Grass Lily is a perennial herb, upto 13 cm
tall. Corms are ovate or nearly-spherical varying in size, narrowing to a
short neck. Stem is rigid to floppy. Leaves are alternate, 4-6, similar to
grass blades, stalkless, 8-14 x 0.4-1.0 cm, the lower larger and upper
smaller, iinear or linear-lanceshaped, tip pointed. Flowers are bright
pink to pinkish mauve, creamy white in bud, generally 2-4, sometimes
4-6 in a short branch-end raceme. Bracts are leafy, smaller. Flower-stalks
are 2.5-4.0 cm long, reaching 5.5 cm in fruit. Tepals are 6, broadly
elliptic or elliptic-ovate, pointed or tapering, 6-10 x 3-4 mm, spreading
and rising up, 7-9 nervd. Stamens are 3.5-4.0 mrn long; anther nearly-spherical,
1.25 x 1.0 mm, purple, pollen yellow ; filaments 3 mm long, straight,
light pinkish, tapering towards the tip. Capsules are 8-12 mm long, obovate
or nearly spherical. Star Grass Lily is commonly found in Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: Dinesh Valke | Photographed at Kas plateau, Satara, Maharashtra. |
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