| Hairy Cottongrass |
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| Original date | 8/21/08 3:51 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
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| Focal length | 5.35mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-W110 |
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Botanical name: Eriophorum comosum Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge family)
Synonyms: Trichophorum comosum, Scirpus comosus, Erioscirpus comosus
Synonyms: Trichophorum comosum, Scirpus comosus, Erioscirpus comosus
Hairy Cottongrass is a grass-like plant with short,
stout rhizomes. Stems (culms) are densely tufted, obtusely 3-angled or
rarely cylindric, 14-78 cm tall, 1-2 mm thick, smooth, clothed at base
with black to brown leaf sheaths. Leaves are many, overtopping
inflorescence. Leaf blade is linear, 0.5-1 mm wide, margin involute and
rough, gradually tapering and setaceous toward apex. Involucral bracts
are leaflike, overtopping inflorescence. Bractlets are lanceshaped,
margin rough apically setaceous. Inflorescence is a large compound or
decompound anthela, 6-22 cm. Spikelets are many, solitary or a cluster
of 2 or 3, oblong but ellipsoid at anthesis, 6-12 mm. Glumes are brown,
ovate-lanceolate, 2.3-3 mm, membranous, keel green, excurrent into a
mucro at acute to obtuse apex; basal 4 glumes empty.
Hairy Cottongrass is found growing in crevices on rock or cliffs, and
on grassland slopes, at altitudes of 500-2800 m. It is found in parts
of China, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, N India, Indonesia, Kashmir,
N Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam and SW Asia. Flowering:
May-November.
| Identification credit: Manoj Chandran | Photographed in Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. |
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