| Small Globe Flower |
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| File size | 405460 |
| Original date | 6/22/13 12:34 PM |
| Resolution | 1648 x 1236 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ40 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Trollius pumilus Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Small Globe Flower is a plant with stems more than
3.5 cm, up to 25 cm at fruiting, simple. Basal leaves are 1--3; stalk
1.5--5 cm, base sheathed. Leaf blade or green or not when dried,
pentagonal or pentagonal-ovate, 0.8-1.5 x 1.2-2.5 cm, base deeply
cordate, 3-parted; central lobe obovate or flabellate-obovate, apex
rounded, 3-lobed, with 2 or 3 lobules or dentate margin; lateral lobes
obliquely flabellate, unequally 2-fid. Cauline leaves 2 or 3, similar
to basal ones. Flower solitary, terminal, 1.5-3 cm in diameter. Sepals
5, yellow and caducous, obovate or ovate, 6-10 x 3.5-9 mm, tip rounded,
usually caducous. Petals are spatulate-linear, shorter than stamens,
2-3 x 0.5 mm, apex rounded. Stamens are 3.5--5 mm. Follicles are 6-16,
1 cm; persistent style about 1 mm. Small Globe Flower is found in
Eastern Himalayas, China, Bhutan, N Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim, NE India,
at altitudes of 2300-4800 m. Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed enroute to Bumla Pass, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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