I am uncertain what this is. It does not match well my understanding of what G.lambertii is plus there are no records of this species for Kashmir. Shall look into this further - there are several species of Geranium in Kashmir and bordering areas I am unfamiliar with. This specimen from Aphawat could be one of these. Plus there is the possibility of new species of this genus from this area - some new ones have been recognised in past decades.
I consider it will be helpful for keen photographers, willing to make an additional effort, to know which parts of Geranium to photograph. Having images of such parts of each geranium will greatly aid identification and enhance our understanding of the genus in the Himalaya - and perhaps you can help with the locating and identification of a species new-to-science! PHOTOGRAPHING GERANIUMS: *IF only the first one or two flowers have come out don't bother to collect as the form of inflorescence will not be evident.* *The rootstock is important; get enough to show whether compact or creeping, or annual. You can photograph the base of the plant which should provide this information. Clearly, one requires permission from the authorities to uproot a plant. There is still a need and indeed role for the collection of pressed specimens for herbaria in India but that is primarily the domain of staff of botanic gardens/ institutions.* * In the early stages of flowering look out for the best-developed unripe fruits available.* * If fruit is ripe try to include both dehisced and undehisced states.* * If the fruits are falling with the seeds inside them, collect some (many geraniums disperse their seed explosively but some seed is often retained).* *Include some loose petals when pressing (detach if necessary). Expose stamens to show filament shape and hairs by taking 2 or 3 sepals off a flower from which petals have recently dropped.* *Smoothing out one or two leaves and flowers as you close the press may be helpful; a few separately pressed basal and lower/middle stem leaves are often useful.* *Wilted specimens can be very misleading.* *Notes should be taken as to flower posture, colour and patterning of petals, colour of stigmas, anthers and distal parts of filaments (not necessary if your photos show these).* *And don't forget to ensure the stipules are clearly shown - something that would have been obviously in pressed specimens, so not mentioned above by Yeo.* On Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 7:42:28 AM UTC, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > *Geranium lambertii* Sweet, Geraniaceae. 4: t. 338. 1827. > > Syn: *Geranium **grevilleanum* Wall. > > > Perennial herb with thick short vertical rootstock; branches trailing or > ascending, up to 50 cm tall; Leaves opposite, stipules broadly lanceolate, > free, 8-13 mm long, upper narrower; leaf blade 5-angled, 5-7-lobed to about > middle, 6-8 cm broad, with rhomboid-cuneate lobes, appressed-hairy; flowers > pale pink, rose-coloured or white,25-35 mm across,in 2-flowered cluster on > up to 16 cm long peduncle covered with spreading hairs; pedicel up to 5 cm > long; sepals elliptic-ovate, 8-14 mm long, mucro 1.5-2 mm long; petals > 15-22 mm long, hairy at base, tip rounded or depressed; filaments > lanceolate, hairy outside, anthers black; mericarps smooth, beak ap to 3 cm > long. > > > Photographed from Apharwat Kashmir. The leaves resemble G. wallichianum > but stipules are much narrow and free and petals rose to white. > > -- > 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
