Excellent display of details Ashwini Ji.. On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Growing among the wheat crops along with the other vetch, this more > delicate vetch is flowering and fruiting. None of the flowers are fully > open but there are several turning into fruits. Here are a few observations > and photographs. Please correct me if I am making a mistake in identifying > it as *V. hirsuta*. > > *V. hirsuta can be told apart from the very similar V. tetrasperma by the > number of seeds in their pods. V. hirsuta has 2 while V. tetrasperma has 4. > Sepals are roughly equal in V. hirsuta and not so in V. tetrasperma.* > > Height: The plants are 10-45cm tall. > Flowers: Tiny almost white, pedicels about 1mm, corolla height 4mm > (haven't measured an open flower yet to know the dimension across), pedicel > about 1mm. > Leaves: Compound with narrow leaflets and tendrils at the end. Leaflets > alternate, sometime opposite, often half-folded into boat-shapes. Stems > square. Stipules L-shaped with dark spot on the vertical part. > Fruit: Hairy pods containing 2 seeds each. 4mm wide x 10mm long. > > *V. hirsuta* > Near Dal Lake, Dharamshala, HP > 1800m approx. > 26-27 February 2018. > > Thanks. > Ashwini > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh Assistant Professor Department of Botany I.B. (PG) College Panipat-132103 Haryana Ph.: 09416371227 -- 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.
