I don't think it is Youngia japonica, which has much reduced hardly one or two cauline leaves and basal leaves are lyrate-pinnatifid.
http://herbarium.biol.sc.edu/herb/YY/Youngia_japonica3.jpg Achenes should help in identification. -- 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Tanay Bose <tanaybos...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a new genus for me. > Thanks Nidhan Ji for posting > Tanay > > > On 28 February 2012 21:17, Nidhan Singh <nidhansingh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> This is *Youngia japonica **(Linn.) DC., Prodr. 7: 194, 1838*; *Crepis >> japonica (Linn.) Benth., Fl. Hongk. 194, 1861*; *Prenanthes japonicaLinn., >> Mant. Pl. 1: 107, 1767 (Basionym). >> * >> >> An erect, slender, nearly glabrous herb. Leaves mostly radical and >> rosetted, membraneous, thin, sinuately lobed or pinnatifid, lobes toothed. >> Floral shoots slender, erect, corymbosely branched near the top. Heads >> nearly 0.6-0.9 cm, yellow. Achenes reddish-brown, pappus silvery. >> Shot from my Village in Kaithal-Haryana in January 2012. Kindly >> validate/correct the id.... >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Dr. Nidhan Singh >> Department of Botany >> I.B. (PG) College >> Panipat-132103 Haryana >> Ph.: 09416371227 >> >> > > > -- > *Tanay Bose* > Research & Teaching Assistant. > Department of Botany. > University of British Columbia . > 6270 University Blvd. > Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) > Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) > 604-822-2019 (Lab) > 604-822-6089 (Fax) > tanay.b...@botany.ubc.ca <ta...@interchange.ubc.ca> > *Webpages:* > UBC Botany , Berbee Lab <http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html> > UBC Botany, People <http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html> > EfloraofIndia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> > > > -- 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
