Thank you Balkar ji and Prashanth ji for confirming the id and providing further links.
Thanks to Suresh Rana as well for such a nice picture of a wonderful plant I feel so happy now... Thanks and Regards, Giby On 31 October 2011 22:10, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
