Nice to know about this find..thanks for sharing..
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > A species of Bromus described by me in 1976. Age not permitting I could > not climb those difficult slopes when I visited the area last year, as such > I am uploading the isotype. > Named after the peak Barobal avove Harwan in Kashmir, the species looks > similar to B. japonicus but easily differentiated by its larger spikelets > being compressed and solotary at apices of hairy flexuous branches of > panicle, glumes and lemma hairy and anthers larger. I am reproducing from > original publication. > > *Bromus barobalianus *G. Singh,* Forest Flora of Srinagar, *P. 129*, *Fig. > 8*, *1976. > > Habitu *Bromus japonicus* Thunb. sed distat: panicula flexuousus rami > pilosus, spicula compressus, majoribus, lemma carinatus, longioribus, > antherae longioribus. > > Annua, 14-40 cm alta, omino melliter pilosa. Folia linearis, 5-12 cm > longa, 3-5 mm lata; ligula 1.5-2 mm longa, apice fisso truncata. Panicula > patens; ramis 6-14, flexuousus, tenuibus pilosis, 2-5 cm longis. Spiculis > pendentibus, solitarious, compressus, 15-23 mm longis (aristis exclusis), > 6-12 floris, apice attenuatus. Gluma inferior 6-8 mm longa, 3-nervis, > superior 9-11 mm longa, 5-7 nervis, utrae pilosae. Lemma 11-33 mm longa, > carinatus, pilosa externus, 7-9 nervis, arista subapiculi, 12-18 mm longa, > apice bidentata, dentibus 1-1.5 mm longis, arista fructifer recurvatis. > Palea 9-10 mm longa, membranacea, pilosa externus, 2-nervis, margine > incurvatus, nervis hispidus. Antherae furcescentes, 2.2-2.8 mm longae. > Caryopsis 4-6 mm longa, ellipsoidea, brunnea, canaliculata, apice pilosa. > > Holotypus: In dedivibus supra Harwan, Kashmir, alt. 2300 m : Gurcharan > Singh No. 1623. In Herbario Departmenti Phytologiae, Universitas > Kashmiriensis, Srinagar conservatur. > > Annual herb, 15-40 cm tall, softly hairy all over. Leaves linear, 5-12 cm > long, 3-5 mm broad; ligule 1.5-2 mm long with truncate parted apex. Panicle > spreading with 4-14 branches; branches slender, flexuous, densely softly > hairy, 2-5 cm long. Spikelets drooping, 15-23 mm long (excluding awn), > compressed, attenuated above, 6-12 flowered. Lower glume 6-8 mm long, > 3-nerved, upper glume 9-11 mm long, 5-7 nerved, both glumes hairy without. > Lemma 11-13 mm long, keeled, hairy without, 7-9 nerved, awned; awn > subapical, 12-18 mm long, recurved in fruiting; apex of lemma two toothed, > teeth 1-1.5 mm lo9ng. Palea 9-10 mm long, hairy without, prominently two > ribbed, membraneous, margins incurved, ribs hispid. Anthers brownish, > linear, 2.2-2.8 mm long. Caryopsis 4-6 mm long, chocolate brown, ellipsoid, > hairy at apex, longitudinally grooved along one side. > > Holotype: Slopes above Harwan, Kashmir, alt. 2300 m: Gurcharan Singh No. > 1623. Deposited in the Herbarium of Botany Department, Kashmir University , > Srinagar. > > > > -- > 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. > > > -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh Assistant Professor Department of Botany I.B. (PG) College Panipat-132103 Haryana Ph.: 09416371227 -- --- 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.
