Thanks, Gurucharanji for showing me these rare things.... Beautiful photography to boot too !!!
Usha di ======= On Aug 29, 8:08 pm, Tabish <tabi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Polygonum affine D. Don is the accepted name now > http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-50133712 > Status of Bistorta affinis not resolved. > - Tabish > > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Bistorta affinis (D. Don) Greene, Leafl. bot. observ. 1:21, 1904 > > > syn: Polygonum affine D. Don; Persicaria affinis (D. Don) Ronse Decr. > > Common name: Himalayan fleece-flower > > Perennial plant with woody rootstock clothed with old stipules, and > > procumbent tufted branches up to 25 cm long; leaves mostly basal, > > elliptic-lanceolate, margins recurved, crenate, glabrous; stem leaves few; > > ochrea up to 1 cm long, many-nerved, brown; flowers pedicellate, white > > turning rosy with age, in compact 5-8 cm long erect spicate racemes; tepals > > 5, biseriate; stamens 8; ovary trigonous with long free styles; nut > > trigonous, 2-2.5 mm long. > > Photographed from Apharwat Mountain in Kashmir in August, often forming > > patches among rocky slopes, alt. 3500 m. > > > -- > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > > Retired Associate Professor > > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > >http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- > -------------------------------------------http://www.flowersofindia.in > The waterhole of flower lovers
