Yes Giby Ji Physochlaina praealta (Solanaceae) * * http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/LEvOibKsVBeCixKmgVOnig http://www.plantgenera.org/taxa.php?id_taxon=8398&language=
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Giby Kuriakose <[email protected]>wrote: > I am copying information available in Flora of Pakistan @ > http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200020571 > > Please refer and see whether this matches and check any herbarium or other > sources. > * > * > Regards, > Giby > * > * > * > * > *Physochlaina praealta* (Decne.) Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2, > 5:473. 1850. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4:244.1883. > > YASIN J. NASIR > > *Belenia* *praealta* > Decne.<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=230000469> > *Scopolia* *praealta* > Dunal<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=230005684> > > Herb 1 m or more tall, branched, pubescent. Leaf lamina 7-11 x 5-9.5 cm, > ovate, ovate-oblong, pubescent, midrib prominent on under surface. Petiole > c. lamina length or shorter. Corymbs lax, pubescent. Pedicels 8-20 mm long, > up to 35 mm in fruit, Calyx 9-11 mm long, tubular-campanulate, > glandular-pubescent, up to 27 mm in fruit, ± chartaceous and nervose; lobes > 3.5-5 mm long, triangualr, ovate. Corolla 20-30 mm long, infundibuliform, > yellow, lobes obtuse-wavy, with greenish-brown veins. Stamens exserted; > anthers 3 mm long, oblong, filaments slender, lower 1/3rd pubescent. Style > exceeding stamens in length, slender, glabrous. Capsule broadly tubular, > 7-9.5 mm long. Seeds 2.5-3 mm long, reniform, rugose-tuberculate, > brownish-yellow. > > *Fl. Per*.: June-July. > > Type: Kashmir in Valle Hangarang et Spiti, Rici, Yurpo etc., alt. 3700 m, > *Jacquemont*. > > Distribution: Karakorams, S. Tibet, China (Kashgar and Yarkand). > > A plant of high dry stony areas from 2590-4800 m. > > > Regards, > Giby > > > > > On 31 October 2011 22:01, Giby Kuriakose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wow very different characters for Datura! >> Exerted stamens and pistil, terminal inflorescence! >> Do you have pictures of fruits. >> Anyway this plant is new one to me. >> >> Please check for any possibility of species of *Physochlaina* (I got >> this suggestion while searching similar plants online) >> http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=125320 >> >> Regards, >> Giby >> >> >> >> On 31 October 2011 21:44, Suresh Rana <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I found only two species of Datura in "Flowers of Himalayas" i.e D. >>> stramonium and D. suaveolens confined upto 2200 and 1700 mtrs >>> respectively. In Flora of British India there is mention of 10 species >>> of which only D. stramomonium and D. metel are found in Himalayas and >>> all other are confined to lowers altitudes. Kindly help me to identify >>> this species and mention literature about any other specie of higher >>> altitude. >>> >>> Thanks and regards >>> Suresh Rana >> >> >> >> >> -- >> GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD >> Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), >> Royal Enclave, >> Jakkur Post, Srirampura >> Bangalore- 560064 >> India >> Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) >> visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby >> > > > > -- > GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD > Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), > Royal Enclave, > Jakkur Post, Srirampura > Bangalore- 560064 > India > Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) > visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
