Very nice upload Family : Compositae. (I am surprised to know that" The plant list" mentions the name as Compositae rather than Asteraceae. I know both are same; which should be used then or latest one?
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > *Chaetoseris hastata* (Wall. ex DC.) C.Shih, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 29(5): > 404 (1991) > syn: *Lactuca hastata* Wall. ex DC.; *Cicerbita* *cyanea* var. *hastata* > (Wall. > ex DC.) Beauverd > > Tall perennial herb up to 2 m tall glabrescent below, glandular pubescent > above especially in the inflorescence; leaves up to 30 cm long, petiole > somewhat winged, blade pinnatifid with large terminal lobe, upper > progressively smaller; heads bhluish-purple, 18-22 mm long, in panicles, on > nodding peduncles; outer involucre bracts about half as long as inner ones, > bristly hairy; florets 10-30; achenes elliptic or obovate, 6 mm long > (including beak), with beak white as long as dark brown body; pappus 5-6 mm > long, dirty white. > > The plant looks similar in appearance to Prenanthes brunoniana but latter > has only 3-5 florets in the head and achenes are not beaked. > > Common in Chakrata area growing among shrubs. Photographed in September. > > -- > 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/ > > -- Dr Satish Phadke
