Beautiful tinny shrub of alpine lands. DSRawat Pantnagar On Friday, April 4, 2014 10:42:31 AM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > > *Cassiope fastigiata* (Wall.) D. Don, Edinburgh New Philos. J. 17: 158. > 1834. > > Had collected specimens of this beautiful alpine shrublet for herbarium > between 1970 to 1974 in Kashmir. Was lucky to locate it around Tungnath > temple in Uttarakhand on June 1, 2013. > > A much-branched tufted shrublet usually less than 20 cm tall with closely > packed thick small leaves arranged in four rows; flowers axillary, pendent, > white on up to 7 mm long pedicels; calyx with brown to purple oblong-ovate, > 4-5 mm long lobes; corolla white, bell-shaped, 5-9 mm long with 2-4 mm long > outcurved lobes; capsule globose, 2-3 mm in diam. > > -- > 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/ > >
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