| Eastern Bog Star |
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| File size | 123664 |
| Original date | 7/27/14 1:55 PM |
| Resolution | 760 x 570 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/800s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-HX300 |
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Botanical name: Parnassia wightiana Family: Celastraceae (Spike-thorn family)
Synonyms: Parnassia nana, Parnassia ornata, Parnassia dilatata
Synonyms: Parnassia nana, Parnassia ornata, Parnassia dilatata
Eastern Bog Star is a perennial hairless herb with 2-4
stems, 18-24 cm or less tall, with 1 leaf near middle or distally.
Flowers are white, 1.5-4 cm in diameter, petals oblong, obovate, or
somewhat fiddle-shaped, 8-11 x 4-9 mm, base wedge-shaped into a claw
1.5-2.5 mm, margin long fringed proximally, erose-toothed or rarely
erose distally. Anthers are oblong, about 1.5 mm; filaments 5-7 mm,
style about 1.5 mm; stigma 3-lobed.
Sepal cup is shortly top-shaped, sepals densely purple-brown dotted on
both surfaces, ovate-lanceshaped, 5-9 × 3-3.5 mm, tip rounded-blunt.
Basal leaves are 2-5; leaf-stalk 3-10 cm; leaf blade below greenish,
above green, triangular-ovate, ovate-heart-shaped, broadly
heart-shaped, or kidney-shaped, 2.5-4 x 3.8-6.3 cm, 7-9 veined, base
deeply heart-shaped to flat, tip rounded, blunt, or apiculate. Stem
leaf stalkless, half-stem-clasping, similar to basal ones but sometimes
smaller. Capsules are obovoid. Eastern Bog Star is native to
Afghanistan to the Himalayas (2700-3600 m) to China and N. Indo-China
amd SW India. Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: D.S. Rawat | Photographed near Munsyari, Pithoragarh distt, Uttarakhand. |
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