| Small Leaved Locoweed |
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| Original date | 7/2/12 8:47 AM |
| Resolution | 1648 x 1236 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-TZ10 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Oxytropis microphylla Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Phaca microphylla, Astragalus microphyllus
Synonyms: Phaca microphylla, Astragalus microphyllus
Small Leaved Locoweed is a perennial herb with thick and woody root.
Aerial stem is absent. Leaves are pinnate, and leaf bases are covered with
white or yellowish woolly hairs. Leaves are up to 18 cm long, with stalks
up to 5.5 cm long, glandular, hairy. Leaflets are alternate, opposite,
mostly whorled, nearly stalkless, linear-oblong, up to 8 mm long, about
2-4 mm broad, gland dotted and hairy. Flowers are borne in a raceme held
atop a long stalk. Bracts are 4-5 mm long, gland dotted and hairy. Flower
stalks are 1-1.5 mm. Sepal structure is 1-1.1 cm long, hairy and covered
with brown glandular swellings, teeth 2-2.5 mm. Flowers are pink-purple.
Petals are 1.9-2.1 cm. Fruit is 1.5-2.5 cm long, 4.5 mm broad, with a
pointed tip, smooth with glandular swellings, almost completely
bilocular, 20-30-seeded. Small Leaved Locoweed is found in the Himalayas,
from Pakistan to C. Nepal, at altitudes of 2700-3600 m.
Flowering: May-August.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Ladakh. |