Thanks for Sharing this plant Sir. Never seen This before On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:45 AM, ushadi Micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Never seen even a picture of this, though I had not gone looking for it > either, thanks for the demonstration... > > what a weird shaggy structure, I was wondering it must have taken the > botanists of yore a great deal of patience to dissect the flowers etc and > study the plant to arrive at this classification.................... > > usha di > == > > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> *Arnebia benthamii* (Wall. ex G. Don) I. M. Johnston, J. Arn. Arb. >> 35:56. 1954 >> syn: *Echium benthamii* Wall. ex G. Don; *Macrotomia benthamii* (Wall. >> ex G. Don) A. DC; *Lithospermum* *benthamii* (Wall. ex G. Don) I. M. >> Johnston >> >> Perennial herb with simple stem up to 70 cm tall covered with stiff long >> hairs; roots thick; leaves linear, basal leaves up to 25 cm long, linear to >> lanceolate, covered with bristly hairs, upper smaller; flowers red-purple, >> partially covered with long linear drooping bracts, forming a cylindrical >> spike; corolla about 25 mm long with spreading lobes; calyx lobes tipped >> with purple. >> >> Photographed from near Jawahar tunnel and from Kashmir University >> Botanical Garden. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
