| Two-Flower Mosla |
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| File size | 81037 |
| Original date | 5/30/09 6:41 PM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 105.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
| Focus Distance | 0.0m |
| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Mosla dianthera Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Cunila nepalensis, Mosla hirta, Orthodon hirtus
Synonyms: Cunila nepalensis, Mosla hirta, Orthodon hirtus
Two-Flower Mosla is an annual, rather slender,
pleasingly aromatic herb. Stems are usually branched, erect, 15-80 cm,
quadrangular, leafy. Leaves are ovate, 25-35 x 15-20 mm, regularly
sawtoothed, pointed, wedge-shaped, almost hairless. Leaf-stalks on
lower leaves about 1.5 cm, less above. Inflorescence is unbranched to
much branched. Verticillasters are 5-15, each with 2 flowers, often on
one side. Bracts are narrow oblong-elliptic, 2-3 mm, as long as the
flower-stalks. Calyx in flower about 1.5 mm, soon in fruit expanding to
5-5.5 mm with two lower lobes longer than the bell-shaped tube and a
subentire-flat shortly 3-toothed upper lip, 10-nerved. Flowers are
purplish or white marked pink or purple, inprominent, soon falling off,
about 2-2.5 mm, upper and lower lobes weakly differentiated. Two-Flower
Mosla is found in the Himalayas, N. India, east to China, Amur, Japan,
Malaysia, at altitudes of 700-2100 m.
| Identification credit: Varun Sharma, D.S. Rawat | Photographed in Gori Valley |
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