| Overlapping-Leaves Rhodiola |
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| Original date | 8/3/12 12:46 PM |
| Resolution | 4592 x 3448 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1000s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G3 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Rhodiola imbricata Family: Crassulaceae (Sedum family)
Synonyms: Sedum imbricatum
Synonyms: Sedum imbricatum
Overlapping-Leaves Rhodiola is a perennial herb, 10-30
cm high. Flowers pale yellow with green or often reddish sepals, in a
very dense compact at branch-ends cluster surrounded by an involucre of
leaves. Flowers are unisexual, 4-5 merous, stalked. Sepals are basally
fused, entire, blunt, linear or linear-ovate, 4.5-6.5 x 0.8-1 mm.
Petals are hairless, entire, blunt, narrowly angular-obovate or
oblong-obovate, 5-6.5 x 1.2-1.5 mm. Stamens are 8-10, longer than the
petals, in two whorls. Leaves are 1.3-3 cm long, oblong to narrow
elliptic, nearly entire; flowering stems 3-5, reddish, 10-20 cm.
Rootstock is massive, 2-2.5 cm across, without suckers.
Overlapping-Leaves Rhodiola is found in the Himalayas, from Pakistan
to C. Nepal, at altitudes of 4000-5000 m. Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: Dinesh Valke | Photographed near Hemkund, Uttarakhand. |
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