Nice find. New to me. Thanks Gurcharan Singh ji for sharing. Regards Prashant
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Geranium lambertii* Sweet, Geraniaceae. 4: t. 338. 1827. > > Syn: *Geranium **grevilleanum* Wall. > > > Perennial herb with thick short vertical rootstock; branches trailing or > ascending, up to 50 cm tall; Leaves opposite, stipules broadly lanceolate, > free, 8-13 mm long, upper narrower; leaf blade 5-angled, 5-7-lobed to about > middle, 6-8 cm broad, with rhomboid-cuneate lobes, appressed-hairy; flowers > pale pink, rose-coloured or white,25-35 mm across,in 2-flowered cluster on > up to 16 cm long peduncle covered with spreading hairs; pedicel up to 5 cm > long; sepals elliptic-ovate, 8-14 mm long, mucro 1.5-2 mm long; petals > 15-22 mm long, hairy at base, tip rounded or depressed; filaments > lanceolate, hairy outside, anthers black; mericarps smooth, beak ap to 3 cm > long. > > > Photographed from Apharwat Kashmir. The leaves resemble G. wallichianum > but stipules are much narrow and free and petals rose to white. > > -- > 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/ > > -- > > --- > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
