| West-Himalayan Ligularia |
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| File size | 624613 |
| Original date | 8/15/06 12:28 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/175s |
| Aperture | 5.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Ligularia jacquemontiana Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Senecio jacquemontianus, Senecillis jacquemontiana
Synonyms: Senecio jacquemontianus, Senecillis jacquemontiana
West-Himalayan Ligularia is a shrub 4-5 ft tall. Stem
is hairless, reddish brown, grooved. Leaves are broadly
ovate-heart-shaped, blunt or somewhat pointed, sinuate, basally
heart-shaped, hairless, basal leaves 18-30 x 15-20 cm long
leaf-stalked; upper stem leaves winged stalked, semistem-clasping,
lanceshaped-inverted-lanceshaped, 10 x 6 cm. Flower-heads numerous
pedunculed, in elongated or conical racemes, heterogamous, radiate,
2-2.5 cm in diameter. Involucre cylindrical, phyllaries uniseriate,
lanceshaped, pointed-tapering, hairless but finely velvet-hairy towards
the tip, 8-10 x 3-4 mm. Ray florets ligulate, female, 10-16 mm long,
6-9 veined; disc florets tubular, bisexual, flower 5-6 mm long, limb
bell-shaped, 3-4 mm long, tube 2 mm long. Anthers apically blunt,
shortly caudate. Cypsela oblong, blackish-reddish brown, 8-10 ribbed,
4-8 mm long. Pappus basally fused forming a crown or of minute
bristles, 1-3 mm long, 40-50, reddish brown. West-Himalayan Ligularia is
found in Western Himalayas, at altitudes of 2700-4000 m.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand. |
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