Good morning Sir and thank you very much. Initially it was a tough fight between *debilis* and *tuberosus*. Single capitulum and long attenuate apex of phyllary, as described in FoC, helped.
Regards On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Surajit for this further exploration. This plant is very commonly > cultivated in Delhi and often runs wild and may be found on garbage dumps > or waste places. When I came to Delhi in 1975, some one introduced this > plant to me as Viguieria helianthoides, and this went on for many years > till a few years back when I identified it as Helianthus debilis. It is > good that you mentioned subspecies cucumerifolius, and after seeing key in > eflora of N. America, I realised that plant grown in Delhi is actually this > one only. > Thanks once again for update. > > 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/ > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:36 AM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> A sapling, seems to be *Helianthus debilis* Nuttall subsp. >> *cucumerifolius* (Torrey & A. Gray) >> Heiser<http://plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=162870>, >> @ Rs.10 on the 30th March. >> Last photographed on 20th April. >> Passed away on the 26th. >> Cause of death : Unknown (possibly a stray cat jumped and crashed over it) >> >> -- >> 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]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
