Another great series, Gurcharan ji, with beautiful pictures and useful details. Thank you so much.
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Rosa webbiana* Wall. ex Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mount. 208. t. 42. f. 2. > 1839. > > Shrub with thin flexuous twigs; yellowish-brown twigs; prickles uniform or > mixed with bristles, usually in pairs, straight or or ascending, absent on > flowering stems; leaves with leaflets 5-9, simply or doubly serrulate, 1-2 > cm long, elliptic to obovate; flowers solitary or 3-5 in a cluster, 3-5 cm > diam., red, pink or white, pedicel often with stalked glands; sepals entire, > shorter, persistent; hip oblong-ovoid, 1-2 cm in diam, ovoid or globose, > glabrous, red when mature. > > Looking similar to R. macrophylla but with smaller lesser leaflets, shorter > calyx tips and shorter ovoid hips without glands. > > Photographed from above Cheshmashahi in Srinagar, Kashmir first week of > July > > -- > 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/ > >
