ID validation please ! Thank you.
Saroj Kasaju On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Saroj Kasaju <kasajusa...@gmail.com> wrote: > [image: FoI] <http://www.flowersofindia.net/> > Persian Speedwell > [image: Foto info] > [image: Persian Speedwell] > <http://www.flowersofindia.net/Scripts/rec_form.php> > ative > *Photo:* Thingnam Girija*Common name:* Birdeye Speedwell, Common Field > Speedwell, Persian Speedwell > *Botanical name:* *Veronica persica* *Family:* *Plantaginaceae* (Isabgol > family) > ------------------------------ > Persian speedwell is a small annual herb, prostrate and spreading. The > flowers are sky-blue with dark stripes and a white center, and they are > zygomorphic (they only have one plane of symmetry, which is vertical) They > are solitary on long, slender, hairy stalks in the leaf axils. The seed > leaves are broadly triangular cotyledons, with truncated base. The > short-stalked leaves are broadly ovate, having coarsely serrated margins. > Persian Speedwell has weak stems that form a dense, prostrate ground cover. > Tips of stems are often ascending. Leaves on the lower stems are paired, > but are alternate on the upper portion of the stem. The short-petioled > leaves are longer than they are broad and coarsely toothed. Annual or > winter annual. Reproduce from seed. Fruits are heart-shaped and hairy. > ------------------------------ > Photographed in Mussoori > > Thank you. > > Saroj Kasaju > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Saroj Kasaju <kasajusa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear Chris , >> >> Among the listed in Nepal I guess it is matching with Veronica persica >> Poir. >> >> Enclosing link for further analysis. >> >> http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=134499 >> >> javascript:popup("http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Persian >> Speedwell.html") >> >> >> Thank you. >> >> Saroj Kasaju >> >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Saroj Kasaju <kasajusa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Lovely coverage ! >>> >>> On 3 Jan 2017 12:32, "J.M. Garg" <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks, Chadwell ji >>>> >>>> On 3 Jan 2017 7:15 a.m., "chrischadwell...@btinternet.com" < >>>> chrischadwell...@btinternet.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Veronica persica is listed from Nepal in 'Enumeration of Flowering >>>>> Plants of Nepal' but only 1 record from 1500m in Central Nepal. This >>>>> species >>>>> is known from W&C Asia and the Himalaya but introduced to E.Asia & >>>>> America. * Given its propensity to spread*, it may well be more >>>>> widespread >>>>> in Nepal 40 years on from the publication of the Enumeration and much >>>>> of that was based upon collections made in the 1950s. >>>>> >>>>> Stewart found this Speedwell to be very common in Kashmir @ >>>>> 1600-2800m. >>>>> >>>>> Flora Simlensis does not list this species. >>>>> >>>>> Flowers of Himalaya does list it as a cornfield weed, common @ >>>>> 1500-2800m from Pakistan to Central Nepal. >>>>> >>>>> In the UK it is known as 'Buxbaum's Speedwell' - considered to be >>>>> introduced, first recorded in 1825. Now common in cultivated land >>>>> throughout >>>>> the British Isles and has become the commonest species of the genus in >>>>> this habitat. >>>>> >>>>> I photographed what I understand to be this species in a churchyard in >>>>> the UK last year. Would be useful to post a selection of these images to >>>>> have for reference purposes on this data-base, always bearing in mind that >>>>> the UK variant of a species may be slightly different to form(s) found in >>>>> the Himalaya - even though there are several postings on the site under >>>>> this name already. The images I have are close-ups which help >>>>> view/understand the differences been the species. There were 15 species >>>>> of >>>>> Veronica listed for Nepal. >>>>> >>>>> *So without CLOSELY checking this may well be correctly identified but >>>>> the images of the leaves are not in good close-up and it is hard to be >>>>> certain. According to the Key in 'Enumeration..' above, it appears to >>>>> have >>>>> the main stem terminating in the inflorescence/flowers; then flowers from >>>>> axils of alternate leaves (or leaf-like bracts); then stems creeping, >>>>> ascending in the upper part, leaves petiolate, ovate to orbicular-ovate, >>>>> obtuse, crenate-serrate. I THINK I can detect these characteristics but >>>>> cannot see the sepals. So close-ups of the foliage, undersides of >>>>> flowers >>>>> which reveal shape of sepals and habit views which would better show the >>>>> petiolate leaves etc.* >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, January 2, 2017 at 2:51:42 PM UTC, Saroj Kumar Kasaju wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Dear Members, >>>>>> >>>>>> Location: Godawari Botanical Garden, Nepal >>>>>> Altitude: 5000 ft. >>>>>> Date: 21 February 2015 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you. >>>>>> >>>>>> Saroj Kasaju >>>>>> >>>>> >> > -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
