| Snow White Sedge |
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| File size | 373871 |
| Original date | 6/3/06 3:24 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/321s |
| Aperture | 5.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Cyperus niveus Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge family)
Snow White Sedge is a slender perennial herb of rock
crevices and road sides, growing up to 10-30 cm tall. Stem is about
1 mm in diameter, smooth, grey-green, upper part trigonous, lower part
almost cylindrical, base swollen. Leaves are narrow, grass-like nearly as
long at the stem, somewhat cruved. Flowers consist of a single spherical
group of 4-10 stalkless spikes, 1.5-3.5 cm across, white or yellow-brow.
There are 2-3 leaf-like bracts, up to 6 cm long, channelled or folded,
rough. Spikes 1-2 cm long, up to 5 mm wide, narrowly ovoid, compressed.
Stamens are 3, with anthers 1.5 mm. Nut is about 1.7 mm, obovoid,
trigonous, dark brown or almost black, shiny. Snow White Sedge is found
throughout the Himalayas, at altitudes of 600-2900 m.
Flowering: April-June.
| Identification credit: Saroj Kasaju, Pankaj Kumar | Photographed in Garden of Five Senses, Delhi & Rohtang Pass, Himachal Pradesh. |
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