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On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Swertia chirayita* (Roxb. ex Fleming) Karsten, ; Deutsche Fl. 1025 (1883) > > syn: *Gentiana* *chirayta* Roxb. ; Swertia chirata (Wall.) Clarke > > Tall herb reaching 1.5 m, obscurely angled;cauline leaves subsessile, > elliptic, 4-6 cm long, 5-nerved, lower much longer and often petiolate; > flowers on short pedicels in large panicles, 4-merous; calyx lobes > lanceolate, 5-7 mm long; corolla lurid green-yellow with ovate 6-7 mm long > lobes, with purple veins, each lobe with 2 green glandular depressions at > base, each fringed by white or pink hairs; filaments free; capsule 6-9 mm > long. > > Photographed from Chakrata Deovan Herbal Garden in September. > > -- > 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]. > 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. > -- *Prabhu Kumar K M* Scientist Plant Systematics & Genetic Resources Division Centre for Medicinal Plants Research (CMPR) & 'CMPR' Herbarium Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala Kottakkal, Malappuram *E-mail: [email protected] <[email protected]>* -- 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.
