Another nice upload. Thanks. Regards Prashant On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Balkar Singh <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice Set of Pics Sir > > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> Thanks Tabish ji for alerting me for my upload of G. pusillum which >> finally turned out be Geranium molle >> >> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Geranium$20pusillum/indiantreepix/b3P7qw6_5Cg/_QBb4S0x7wcJ >> >> >> Geranium pusillum is much more common species in Kashmir, but having >> clicked similar species in June in 2010 (which grows in Kashmir, but never >> seen by me before), confused me. >> Having visited Kashmir in May this year I was able to click G. pusillum >> this year. I am uploading the same. The two closely related species can be >> separated as under: >> >> *Geranium molle:* petals deeply notched, 3-8 mm long, longer than >> sepals; leaf lobes closer together; carpels wrinkled; filaments glabrous in >> upper part >> *Geranium pusillum: *petals shallowly notched, 2.5-3.5 mm long, scarcely >> exceeding sepals; leaf lobes diverging from base; carpels smooth; filaments >> hairy in upper part >> >> Another closely similar species G. rotundifolium has petals rounded at >> tip, not notched. >> >> *Geranium pusillum* L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1144. 1759. >> >> Common name: small-flower crane's-bill >> >> Spreading annual herb; leaves opposite, suborbicular to reniform, 15-25 >> mm across, 5-7 lobed, lobes widely diverging, 3-fid at tip; stipules >> lanceolate, 2 mm long; flowers pale purple, 4 mm across, on 2-flowered up >> to 3.5 cm long peduncle; sepals 2-3 mm long, shortly mucronate; petals >> 2.5-3.5 mm long; fertile stamens single whorl, filaments hairy, outer >> without anthers; mericarps not wrinkled, appressed pubescent, beak 7-9 mm >> long. >> >> Photographed from Balgarden, Srinagar, Kashmir in May 2012 >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
