| Graceful Buttonhead |
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| File size | 300572 |
| Original date | 4/21/17 8:26 AM |
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| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3200 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Dichrocephala integrifolia subsp. gracilis Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Dichrocephala gracilis DC.
Synonyms: Dichrocephala gracilis DC.
Graceful Buttonhead is an annual herb, 15-60 cm tall,
stem erect or spreading, usually divaricately branched. Leaves are
pinnately divided, lateral lobes 2-3 pair. leaf-stalks 0.6-1.5 cm long.
Flower-heads are few, spherical, 3-6 mm across, on slender diverging
flower-cluster-stalks. Involucral bracts are minute, linear, with
scarious margins. Ray florets are pink or purplish or white. Flowers of
disc florets are yellow, 4-toothed. Seedpods are about 1 mm long,
smooth or minutely finely velvet-hairy. Pappus of female flowers
absent; of bisexual flowers 2-or 3-bristled. Graceful Buttonhead is
found in the Himalayas up to 2600 m, from Uttarakhand to Nepal and
Sikkim, and also Madagascar.
| Identification credit: Saroj Kasaju | Photographed in Sourinee, Mirik, Darjeeling distt. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,