| Yellow Hooded Lousewort |
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| Original date | 8/15/06 1:24 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/236s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Pedicularis hoffmeisteri Family: Orobanchaceae (Broomrape family)
Synonyms: Pedicularis megalantha var. hoffmeisteri
Synonyms: Pedicularis megalantha var. hoffmeisteri
Yellow Hooded Lousewort is a perennial herb 0.5-2 ft
tall. Flowers are yellow, sometimes very pale, in a cluster borne on a
very short stalk, each flower with a very distinctive long slender
flower-tube many times longer than the calyx, and with what appears to
be a hooded bell-shaped flower, looking down. Upper and lower lip of
the flower are rounded, equal, encircling the long slender beak which
is curved in a circle, lateral lobes small, triangular. Flower-tube is
4-5 cm; calyx 1.5-2 cm, inflated, papery, with leafy toothed lobes.
Leaves are narrow-elliptic, deeply lobed, coarsely toothed, lower
leaves stalked, 10-15 cm; stems variable, mostly 15-60 cm.
Yellow Hooded Lousewort is found in the Himalayas, from Himachal
Pradesh to E. Nepal, at altitudes of 2500-4500 m, in shrubberies and
open slopes. Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: J.M. Garg | Photographed in Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand. |
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