| Woolly-Sepal Cinquefoil |
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| File size | 622676 |
| Original date | 8/14/06 12:53 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/902s |
| Aperture | 5.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Potentilla griffithii Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Woolly-Sepal Cinquefoil is a perennial herb with stout
rootstock and prostrate or decumbent shoots 15-55 cm, whitish silky.
Flowers are yellow, 1.5-2.5 cm across, borne in loose cymes at
branch-ends. Petals are broadly obovate 7-10 mm, notched. Sepals are
ovate, 5-6 mm, white woolly. Basal leaves are pinnate, 5-20 cm; lateral
leaflets 2-4 pairs, elliptic-obovate 0.5-2.5 x 0.5-2cm, blunt, base
rounded or wedge-shaped, margins coarsely sawtoothed, green and thinly
velvet-hairy above, white silky beneath; stipules 1.5-2 cm. Stem leaves
are similar but smaller and with 1-2 pairs of leaflets; stipules
leaflet-like, toothed or lobed. Seedpods are ellipsoid, 0.75 mm.
Woolly-Sepal Cinquefoil is found in the Himalaya to S. Central China, at
altitudes of 2500-3400 m. Flowering: June-September.
| Identification credit: Tabish, J.M. Garg | Photographed on Govindghat-Ghangria route, Uttarakhand. |
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