*Swertia minor (Griseb.) Knobl.* <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/g/gentianaceae/swertia-chirayita-1/swertia-minor> as per images herein.
On Saturday, 26 July 2008 23:48:49 UTC+5:30, Satish Phadke wrote: > > FAMILY OF THE WEEK : GENTIANACEAE > > About 80 genera and 700 species worldwide. > > Vegetative Characters : Herbs [shrubs or small trees], annual, biennial, > or perennial. Stems ascending, erect, or twining. Leaves opposite, less > often alternate or whorled, simple, base connate; stipules absent. > Inflorescences > simple or complex cymes, sometimes reduced to sessile clusters, often in a > thyrse or 1-flowered. Flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual, 4 or 5 (or > 6-8)[-12]-merous. Calyx tubular, obconic, campanulate, or rotate, lobes > joined at least basally. Corolla tubular, obconic, salverform, funnelform, > campanulate, or rotate, rarely with basal spurs; lobes overlapping to right > or rarely valvate in bud; plicae (extensions of the corolla tube between > the lobes) present or absent. Stamens inserted on corolla tube or > occasionally at sinus between corolla lobes, alternate with lobes; anthers > basifixed or dorsifixed, 2-locular. Nectaries absent or attached to ovary > base or corolla. Ovary usually 1-locular at least apically, rarely > 2-locular due to intrusion of a lamellate placenta into locular cavity. Fruit > a 2-valved capsule, rarely a berry. Seeds many or rarely few, small; > endosperm abundant [scant in saprophytic genera]. > > Pollination by insects. > > Examples: > > Exacum > > Enicostema > > Centaurium > > Hoppea > > Canscora > > Swertia > > <http://bp2.blogger.com/__QrJWaqfjh8/SItpyQbcbUI/AAAAAAAAAxo/5udrCGYB88E/s1600-h/Swertia+densifolia1.jpg> > -- > SATISFIED http://satishphadke.blogspot.com/ > -- 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.
