Gurcharan ji, many many thanks for sharing so many plants of the cabbage and mustard family. You have stormed the week with so many species unknown to me. Regards. Dinesh
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > I have one species from Spiti valley which looks close to this. Will share > separately. > > Dr Satish Phadke > > > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> *Descurainia sophia* (L.) Webb ex Prantl, H. G. A. Engler & K. A. E. >> Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(2):192. 1891 >> Syn: *Sisymbrium sophia* L. >> >> Common names: flixweed, herb-Sophia, tansy mustard >> Hindi: Khubkallana >> >> A very distinctive annual herb reaching 1 m tall with leaves 2-3 >> pinnatisect into linear segments; lower leaves stalked, upper sessile; >> flowers yellow, hardly 2-3 mm across, in up to 30 cm long racemes (in >> fruit) with usually more than 50 flowers; pedicel filiform, up to 1.5 cm in >> fruit; sepals about 2 mm long, petals slightly longer; fruit narrowly >> linear, up to 3 cm long, obscurely torulose. >> >> Very common in Kashmir valley, found on road sides and wastelands. >> Photographed from Badam Vari, Srinagar, Kashmir >> >> Seeds are given in desentery and calculus complaints, some times also as >> substitute for mustard and plant preparations used to eradicate >> worms(according to Flora of China). >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > -- > > > > --
