| Red-Stigma Rush |
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| File size | 411463 |
| Original date | 8/3/12 12:39 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G3 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Juncus duthiei Family: Juncaceae (Rush family)
Synonyms: Microschoenus duthiei, Schoenus duthiei
Synonyms: Microschoenus duthiei, Schoenus duthiei
Red-Stigma Rush is a perennial grasslike herb 2-25 cm
tall, quite variable in form. Stem leaf is usually one, mostly near the base,
1.5-7.5 cm long, 0.3-1.4 mm wide, linear, grasslike.
Flowers are borne in a single head of 2-3 shortly stalked flowers.
Tepals are reddish-brown to blackish, sometimes with paler tips and
greenish midribs, narrowly lanceshaped, the inner narrower than the outer
and with narrow membranous margins, all gradually tapered to pointed tip.
Stamens are shorter than tepals; anthers linear, becoming twisted, cream
1.2-3.5 mm, longer than filaments. Style is stout, 1.5-4 mm; stigma lobes
threadlike, erect, sometimes twisted, red 5-9 mm. Fruit is 2.5-3.5 mm,
narrowly ellipsoid-trigonous. Red-Stigma Rush is found in the Himalayas,
at altitudes of 3000-4877 m. Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: Saroj Kasaju, Jacques Leonardi | Photographed enroute to Hemkund, Uttarakhand. |
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