This looks correct - cannot really be anything else. Stewart recorded it as common in the Murree Hills, Pakistan from 650-1800m in N.Pakistan and parts of Kashmir through to Kishtwar. Collet found it common on old walls at Shimla - where one would imagine, it still is.
Recorded from West Nepal but not further east. Known as the 'Shining Cranesbill' in the UK where it grows on shady rocks, walls and hedgebanks, a calciole. On Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 8:32:20 AM UTC, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > *Geranium lucidum* L., Sp. Pl. 682. 1753. > Syn: *Geranium* *laevigatum* Royle > > Common names: Shining crane's bill > > A very distinctive among small-flowered species of the genus with shining > leaves; glabrous annual herb with spreading to ascending often tinged red; > leaves rounded to reniform, usually 5-lobed to about 1/3, segments often > 3-lobed, obtuse; petiole shorter than peduncle; stipules lanceolate 2-2.5 > mm long; flowers rose coloured, 8-12 mm across; pedicel 6-12 mm long; > sepals ovate, acuminate, 5-7 mm long, glabrous, wrinkled transversely, > pyramidal; petals obovate to spatulate, 7-9 mm long, with narrow glabrous > claw; mericarps wrinkled-reticulate, keeled, beak 12-13 mm long. > > Photographed from Chakrata from moist shady places. > > -- > 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.
