Agreed with Dinesh. I too got to know so many new sp. in this week. Thanks Gurcharan Singh ji. Regards Prashant
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > -- > > > > --
