| Kashmir Goat-Grass |
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| File size | 74168 |
| Original date | 6/2/12 9:47 AM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 550D |
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Botanical name: Aegilops tauschii Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Kashmir Goat-Grass is an annual caespitose herb.
Stems are erect, or geniculately ascending; 25-30 cm long. Leaf-sheath
oral hairs ciliate. Leaf-sheath auricles falcate. Ligule an eciliate
membrane. Leaf-blades 8-17 cm long; 3-5 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface
scaberulous; glabrous, or pilose. Inflorescence is composed of racemes.
Racemes 1; single; linear; smoothly terete; bilateral; 5–10 cm long;
5–8 mm wide; bearing 9–11 fertile spikelets on each. Rhachis
fragile at the nodes. Spikelet packing broadside to rhachis. Rhachis
internodes oblong; falling with spikelet above. Spikelets solitary.
Fertile spikelets sessile. Kashmir Goat-Grass is found in Eastern
Europe, Soviet Middle Asia, Caucasus, western Asia, and China and
India.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed in Dachhigam, Kashmir. |
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