Thanks, Ashwini ji. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 16:21 Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:318732] Valeriana jatamansi flower structure ABMAR2019/01 To: J.M. Garg <[email protected]>
Thank you Mr Garg. I am hoping this observation is validated/refuted by a senior member soon. With warm regards, Ashwini On Fri, 5 Apr, 2019, 3:57 PM J.M. Garg, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Ashwini ji, for the wonderful insight. > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 18:58, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> *Valeriana jatamansi* >> March 2019, >> Mcleodganj and above, Dharamshala, HP >> >> I have been looking at the flowers of our valerians here. In much of the >> literature on the species *V. jatamansi*, it is mentioned that the male >> and female flowers are found on different plants. I decided to have a >> closer look at the flowers and found the following: >> >> There are two kinds of flowers on different plants, one larger than the >> other. >> >> The smaller flowers are barely 3mm across with a style (with a trifid >> stigma) projecting well beyond the corolla tube. Inside the tube are three >> stamens whose anthers are below the neck of the corolla tube. Unless the >> stamens are sterile, the flower is hermaphrodite and not a female flower >> even though only style is visible. >> >> The larger, almost twice the size, has three stamens projecting out with >> white anthers and one hair-like style which seems to grow longer after the >> stamens drop their anthers. That stigma too becomes trifid later. Here >> again, unless the stigma is sterile, the flower is hermaphrodite. >> >> It can very well be that the stamens of the smaller and stigma of the >> larger are sterile and flowers are dominantly male and female. Otherwise >> they are merely pin and thrum type. >> >> Please advise. >> >> With thanks and regards, >> 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. >> > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 > are directly displayed). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- more than 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 are directly displayed). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- 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.
