Thanks Gurcharan Singh ji for showing us so many beautiful Brassicaceaeplants... Your posts are setting up new standard, very informative and simple... Thanks again..
Regards Prashant On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Rorippa palustris* (L.) Besser, Enum. pl. 27. 1821 > Syn: R. islandica auct. (non (Oeder) Borbas); Nasturtium paslustre (L.) DC. > > Common names: Marsh yellow cress, yellow cress > > Short-lived perennial of wet places, simple or branched above; basal > leaves rosette forming, withered early, lyrate pinnatisect 5-20 cm long, > cauline leaves short petiolate, auriculate to amplexicaul at base, terminal > lobe larger than lateral ones; flowers yellow in long ebracteate racemes; > pedicels diaricate to reflexed in fruit, 3-12 mm long, sepals up to 2.5 mm > long, petals almost as long or little longer, spatulate; siliqua oblong to > oblong-ovoid, usually shorter than 1 cm, 2-3.5 mm broad, slightly curved. > Commonly growing along drains and smaller streams. Easily differentiated > from R. indica by its broader much shorter fruits, usually less than 1 cm > long. The fruits of latter are 10-15 mm long and barely 1.5 mm broad. > Indian and Chinese specimens have often been confused with R. > islandica (restricted o Europe.....according to GRIN and Fl. China) which > differs in much smaller flowers with sepals and petals less than 1.5 mm > long and fruit more than twice as long as pedicel. > Photographed from Srinagar, Kashmir > > -- > 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/ > > -- > > > > --
