| Baccharis Catamixis |
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| File size | 217522 |
| Original date | 3/12/15 5:15 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 215.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 6.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot SX50 HS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Catamixis baccharoides Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Baccharis Catamixis is a rare and threatened
Himalayan undershrub, growing up to 0.75-1.8 m tall. Branchlets are
round, aspressed silky hairy, or becoming hairless, densely leafy.
Leaves are 3.5-5 cm long, obovate-spoon-shaped, base tapering into a
stalk, leathery, hairless, margin wavy toothed. Flower-heads are borne
in corymbs at branch ends or in leaf axils. Flower-heads consist of
5-6-florets. They are slender, scarcely 1.5 inches. Flowers are whitish
with a pinkish tinge. Seed-pods are 2 mm, velvet-hairy, 10-ribbed, ribs
in the ring shaped apex, pappus 8 mm, white. Baccharis Catamixis is
found in Western Himalayas at altitudes of 700 m. Flowering: March-May.
| Identification credit: Amit Kumar | Photographed in Uttarakhand. |
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