| Yellow Whorlflower |
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| File size | 417806 |
| Original date | 7/16/11 4:01 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.72mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 3.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX L21 |
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Botanical name: Morina coulteriana Family: Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle family)
Synonyms: Morina brevifolia
Synonyms: Morina brevifolia
Yellow Whorlflower is a plant up to 75 cm tall.
Stem is channelled, velvet-hairy to smooth, often hairy at the nodes.
Leaves are stalkless, margin spiny. Basal leaves are 7-18 cm long,
0.5-1.2 cm broad, the stem ones smaller. Yellow flowers are borne in
6-8 whorls of numerous flowers. Lower 3-5 whorls are separate, upper 3
or 4 confluent. Involucral bracts are several, leafy, ovate
long-pointed Involucel funnel shaped, 8-9 mm long, villous, limb
spinose. Sepals are pointed, often spine tipped or with a short mucro.
Flower tube is l.5-2.5 cm long, slender, velvety, petals blunt.
Filaments are about half as long as the petals. Seed-pods are 5 mm
long, dirty white, grooved towards the outside, tip obliquely pointed.
Yellow Whorlflower is found in the Himalayas from Kashmir to Garhwal,
Tibet, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: Suresh Rana | Photographed in Paddar Valley, Jammu & Kashmir. |
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