| Tibetan Willow-Herb |
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| Original date | 7/25/11 11:58 AM |
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| Focal length | 4.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
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| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-ZS3 |
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Botanical name: Epilobium tibetanum Family: Onagraceae (Evening primrose family)
Tibetan Willow-Herb is an erect or prostrate,
perennial herb, with rhizome with dense, fibrous rootlets. Stems are
13-100 cm tall, well-branched, sparsely hairy throughout upper stem,
hairless below with indistinct raised lines decurrent from margins of
leaf-stalks. Leaves are somewhat leathery, carried on 2-5 mm long
leaf-stalks. Stem-leaves are lanceshaped to narrowly ovate, 1.2-6.5 cm
long, 0.5-1.5 cm broad, hairless with sparsely hairy margin and veins,
base wedge-shaped or rounded, margin toothed with 15-35 teeth per side,
tip pointed to long-pointed. Inflorescence and flowers are upright.
Flower-stalks are 0.8-2.5 cm. Sepals are are 3.5-5 mm, keeled. Petals
are pink or rose-purple, rarely white, 5-8 mm. Stigma is round or
broadly club-shaped, entire. Capsules are 4-8.8 cm, sparsely hairy.
Tibetan Willow-Herb is found in Western Himalaya from northeastern
Afghanistan and the Murree Hills to western Nepal, the Chumpi Valley
and the vicinity of Lhasa, Tibet, at altitudes of 2300-4500 m.
Flowering: July-September.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
| Photographed in Khillenmarg, Kashmir. |