
Plastic waste dumped across a green Himalayan hillside
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A large accumulation of plastic waste and other discarded materials is visible on a grassy hillside in the Himalayan region of India.
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Moorcroft's Corydalis is a perennial, glaucous herb, 15-30 cm tall. Rootstock is long, 1-2 cm in diameter at tip, often branched, crowned with residual petiolar bases. Stems are 2-4, from radical leaf axils, ridged, simple or sparingly branched, 2-4-leaved. Radical leaves are about 2/3 as long as stems. Leaf-stalks are about as long as blade, long vaginate. Blade is oblong, sub-bipinnate with 3 or 4 pairs of pinnae. Pinnae are stalked to stalkless, subpinnate to ternate with leaflets deeply cut into obovate to oblanceolate, acuminate, not or only slightly overlapping lobes, 4-18 × 2-5 mm. Flower racemes are 3-7 cm, 10-30-flowered, very dense at first, considerably elongating in fruit. Bracts are longer than flower-stalks, lower ones often pinnatilobate, middle and upper ones entire, ellipt
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