| Virgate Meadow Rue |
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| File size | 417782 |
| Original date | 6/26/11 5:16 PM |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1920 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 92.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/25s |
| Aperture | 4.7 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ40 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Thalictrum virgatum Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Virgate Meadow Rue is plant 15-65 cm tall,
hairless. Stems are branched or simple, smooth. Stem leaves are 7-10,
simple, deeply rounded-lobed. They are
broadly rhombic or broadly rhombic-triangular, 1.1-2.5 x 0.6-2.4 cm,
papery or thinly leathery, base wedge-shaped to rounded or
heart-shaped, tip rounded, 3-lobed. Lobes are toothed. Inflorescence
is simple or compound. Flower-stalks are slender, 0.8-1.8 mm. Sepals
are 4 or 5, deciduous, white or pinkish, ovate, 4-8 × 2.5-4 mm.
Stamens are 4-7 mm, longer than petals - filament narrowly linear,
anther narrowly oblong, tip blunt. Carpels are 10-25, stigma
persistent, about 0.3 mm. Virgate Meadow Rue is found in Eastern
Himalayas, from Nepal to Bhutan and W. China, at altitudes of
2400-4500 m. Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: Nongthombam Ullysess | Photographed enroute to Tsomgo Lake, Sikkim. |
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