Thanks, Ashwini ji, for wonderful presentation and images. On 26-Feb-2018 8:49 AM, "Ashwini Bhatia" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This vetch has been growing in abundance on the margins of cultivated > fields here at 1800m and are easy to spot because of their pink/purple > flowers. The tendrils at the end of compound leaves (which are responsible > for the name *Vicia*, Latin verb 'vincere' means to twist), wrap around > grass blades to help support the plant. The pods are also out and I made > some photographs and collected observations to share with you. Please > correct me if I am wrong in identifying this. > > Height of the plant: 20-65cm > Flowers: Pink/purple with pale centres, 1cm across and about 2cm tall. > Stalk 2-3mm. > Calyx: Fused with five hairy, sharply pointed narrow lobes reaching more > than halfway up the corolla tube. Lobes smaller than the calyx tube. > Leaves: Compound, mostly with 5-6 pairs of leaflets, ending in a > tri-forked tendril. Leaflets arranged opposite or alternately, hairy with > visible veins, ending abruptly in a sharp point (mucronate). Stipules > present, shoe-shaped with a dark spot on the ankle. > Fruit: ca. 7mm wide and 35mm long, ending in a point. Calyx persistent. > > *Vicia sativa* (*sub. sativa?*) > Near Dal Lake, Dharamshala, HP > 1800m approx. > 21 February 2018. > > Thanks. > Ashwini > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
