| White East-Himalayan Coneflower |
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| File size | 419564 |
| Original date | 4/4/23 12:19 PM |
| Resolution | 3264 x 4928 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Strobilanthes simonsii Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
White East-Himalayan Coneflower is a subshrub up to 1
m tall, unequal leaved. It is one of the rare coneflower species with
white flowers. Flower are pure white, 3.5-4.2 cm, gradually widened
from shortly cylinderical base to about 1.5 cm, hairless. Sepal-cup is
1.4 cm, velvet-hairy, sepals linear, tapering into long fine
point.Flowers are borne on branchlets with 1-3 few-flowered heads.
Outer bracts are 2, hairy, dissimilar, larger one 3-4 cm, ovate, entire
with elongate, lanceshaped, sickle shaped, toothed appendage, smaller
one 1.3-2 cm, oblong-lanceshaped with toothed fringed tip; inner bracts
lanceshaped, 2.5-3 cm, tapering, tip rounded toothed; bracteoles
lanceshaped, 1.6-1.9 cm, tapering, hairy. Stems are hairy, leaves
elliptic, curved, not more than 9 x 3 cm, velvet-hairy on both surfaces
but with veins beneath highlighted with longer hairs. Capsules are 1.5
cm, hairless.
| Identification credit: John Wood | Photographed in Hmuifang, Mizoram. |
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