| East-Himalayan Eye Grass |
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| File size | 1281872 |
| Original date | 3/15/20 12:41 PM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3888 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 18.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 4.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX B700 |
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Botanical name: Curculigo prainiana Family: Hypoxidaceae (Star Grass family)
Synonyms: Molineria prainiana
Synonyms: Molineria prainiana
East-Himalayan Eye Grass is a rhizome forming herb,
with elliptic-lanceshaped, pleated leaves, up to 70 cm long and 15.5 cm
broad, papery, entire, tapering. Flowering stem flattened,
velvet-hairy. Flowers are borne in elongated raceme, up to 40-flowered,
up to 15 cm long. Flowers are yellow, bracteate, bisexual, trimerous,
1.5 cm across. Flower-stalk is 0.5-1.5 cm long. Tepals are six, in two
alternative whorls (3 in each), elliptic-lanceshaped, free,
overlapping. Stamens are 6; filament very short, about 2 mm long;
anther erect, dorsifixed, lanceshaped, dithecous, arrow shaped at base,
5-6 mm. Ovary inferior, 3-carpelled, style subulate, stigma capitate.
Berry is pear-shaped, 8-9 x 4-5 mm. East-Himalayan Eye Grass is found
in Arunachal Pradesh.
| Identification credit: East-Himalayan Eye Grass | Photographed in Arunachal Pradesh. |
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