| Slender-Beak Lousewort |
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| Original date | 8/21/11 2:48 PM |
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| Exposure time | 1/400s |
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| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A495 |
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Botanical name: Pedicularis tenuirostris Family: Orobanchaceae (Broomrape family)
Slender-Beak Lousewort is an erect, tall, rather
stout herb with distinctive pale yellow flowers, with the upper lip
inflated below and ending in a long flexuous curved beak, and with the
lower lip very broadly heart-shaped with a small mid-lobe. Calyx is
about 1 cm very hairy, with triangular sepals. Bracts are hairy, ovate
long-pointed, longer than the calyx. Upper leaves are stalkless,
arranged in whorls of 3-5, lanceshaped and pinnately lobed, 5-10 cm
long. Lobes are in turn finely toothed. Lower leaves are stalked. The
plant is 2-3 ft tall. Slender-Beak Lousewort is found in the Western
Himalayas, from Pakistan to Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, at
altitudes of 2400-3700 m. Flowering: July-August.
Identification credit: Krishan Lal, Arti Garg
| Photographed in Chitkul, Kinnaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |