| Nepal St Johns Wort |
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| Original date | 6/8/16 4:20 PM |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1920 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 3.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-TZ10 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: 
Hypericum uralum Family: Hypericaceae (Hypercum family)
Synonyms: Hypericum nepalense K. Koch, Norysca urala
Hypericum uralum Family: Hypericaceae (Hypercum family)Synonyms: Hypericum nepalense K. Koch, Norysca urala
Nepal St Johns Wort is a shrub 0.3-1.8 m tall, bushy,
with golden yellow flowers 1.5-3 cm in diameter. Sepals are 3.5-9 mm
long, oblong or elliptic to obovate-spoon-shaped, rounded, entire,
appressed in bud, ascending in fruit. Petals are broadly obovate to
obovate-circular, 9-18 mm long, 2-4 times longer than the stamens.
Stamens 40-60 in each fascicle. Ovary 3-5 mm long; styles 0.7-0.9 times
as long as the ovary, free, curving throughout or only near tip.
Flowers are borne in 1-3-flowered cymes, at branch ends and often also
lateral. Stems are arching, frondose; branches 4-lined or 4-angled at
first, eventually round. Leaves are nearly stalkless, blade 1.4-4 cm
long, 4-24 mm broad, lanceshaped to ovate, tip pointed to
rounded-apiculate, base narrowly or rarely broadly wedge-shaped,
venation laxly netveined blunt. Capsule is 7-11 mm long, broadly ovoid
to spherical, without vittae or vesicles. Nepal St Johns Wort is found
in the Himalayas, from Kashmir to Nepal, Bhutan, SW China, Burma,
Thailand and Sumatra, at altitudes of 1500-3600 m. Flowering:
April-September.
| Identification credit: J.M. Garg, Saroj Kasaju | Photographed in Gangtok, Sikkim & Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. |
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