| White Himalayan Cinquefoil |
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| File size | 524656 |
| Original date | 9/18/21 11:31 AM |
| Resolution | 6000 x 4000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 50.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/800s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Farinopsis salesoviana Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Synonyms: Potentilla salesoviana, Potentilla salesovii, Comarum salesovii
Synonyms: Potentilla salesoviana, Potentilla salesovii, Comarum salesovii
White Himalayan Cinquefoil is a spreading perennial herb or
undershrub. Flowers are 4-8, at branch-ends, prominent, 2.5-3.0 cm in
diameter, white. Sepal cup is densely silky, outer sepals 5-7 mm long
linear-lanceshaped to ovate-lanceshaped, pointed, inner twice as long
as the outer, oblong-ovate, cuspidate. Petals are 1.2-1.6 cm. long,
nearly round. Stamens about 25. Carpels numerous, concealed in long
dense creamy white hairs, styles lateral, 3.5-4.5 mm. long,
thread-like. Basal stem is 15-30 cm long, prostrate, woody, covered
with overlapping stipules. Floral stem is 10-15 cm. long, at
branch-ends, densely hairy. Leaves are many, crowded at the base,
interruptedly 3-4 paired, leaf-stalks 2-4 cm long, velvet-hairy.
Leaflets are 2-3.5 x 1-1.4 cm, obovate, pointedly 10-14
sawtoothed-toothed, leathery, hairless and green above, powdery below,
nearly stalkless or with small leaflet-stalks. White Himalayan Cinquefoil is
native to Central Asia to SW Siberia and W Himalaya. Flowering:
July-September.
| Identification credit: G.S. Rawat | Photographed in Bodhkharbu, Ladakh. |
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