Beautiful with memories Sir On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology & Horticulture Incharge Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- --- 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.
