Dear Saroj Ji, Thanks for the suggestion, The inflorescences looks like a capitula but I can make out neither ray florets nor disc florets. Just a red dot in the center. Maybe the tiny tepal looking structures are ray florets Would request opinion of experts for its ID With regards Taffazull
On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 1:33:14 PM UTC+5:30 Saroj Kasaju wrote: > Asteraceae?? > Thank you. > > Saroj Kasaju > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 1:46 PM taffa...@gmail.com <taffa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear members, >> Kindly help ID this herb with a peculiar inflorescence. >> Habitat: Edge of lawn in Rawathpora Srinagar >> Habit: Herb. There is a rosette of basal leaves 15-18 cm long, >> lanceolate with winged petioles. Inflorescences borne on 18-20 cm long >> erect branches at the end of 10cm long pedicels., Inflorescence has an >> involucre of two whorls of bracts. Outer whorl has six dark green bracts >> 1cm long and 4mm wide. Inner whorl has about 8 light green bracts 2mm wide. >> The striking thing about the inflorescence is that it has 7 pentagonal >> flowers 1 mm dia with a red spot in center, Anthers are not visible. The >> red spot could be the stigma. Flowers have transparent colorless tepals (?) >> about 0.2mm long (Seen more clearly in photos of LS (Longitudinal sections) >> of inflorescences. >> All photos taken on 25th or 26th of July >> All photos under CC-BY license(Only Attribution needed) >> Regards >> Taffazull >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "eFloraofIndia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to indiantreepi...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/a534fce6-bd6f-4a57-980b-3fceb80de21en%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/a534fce6-bd6f-4a57-980b-3fceb80de21en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/f1567d45-8188-4b91-bf37-62d9a775c9aen%40googlegroups.com.
