Thank you Ushadi, you have always been most encouraging. Warm regards, Ashwini
On Mon, 13 May, 2019, 9:53 AM Ushadi Micromini, <[email protected]> wrote: > Ashwini > Superb presentation > i love it > Usha di > =========== > > > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 8:31 AM Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have been trying to establish the correct identity of our plantago >> species here. Since it is a difficult genus, it took me quite a while to >> reach some conclusion. Following our previous conversation I had started >> with *Plantago major* as the beginning point. Referring to the excellent >> *Tibetan >> Medicinal Plants* edited by Christa Kletter and Monika Kriechbaum (I >> found a copy in a Tibetan library here) I started looking first at *Plantago >> depressa* because our plants do not always have noticeable broad leaves. >> Studying the visible characteristics was not enough to rule out depressa so >> I had to pull out two plants (something I don't enjoy doing) to look at the >> root structure. I found the younger of the two plants without any rootstock >> but the other *had a stocky rootstock, the bottom end of which looked >> cut*, which according to the key in the book ruled out depressa (which >> should have a taproot). Furthermore the *seedpods contained between 9 >> and 14 tiny seeds each measuring roughly 1.2 mm*, strengthening the case >> for *P. major* complex (depressa should have 6-8, 2 mm each). >> >> Once I ruled out depressa, I started looking at plants similar to *P. >> major* (within the complex) that fit the description of our plants. A >> comment in the book said that *P. erosa* is difficult to tell apart from *P. >> major* but erosa has hairy leaves especially when they are young. I >> looked at young leaves and found them to be hairy. In fact there are >> scattered leaves even on the mature leaves. Also according to the key, >> erosa should have a continuous sepal keel, which again is true for our >> plants (I will appreciate if someone could confirm this looking at the >> photos). >> >> So *I am inclined to put our plants as P. erosa within the larger P. >> major complex*. Please advise. >> >> I found another pdf on the family here >> <http://ashipunov.info/shipunov/plantago/plantagineae_key.pdf>. >> >> All plants were photographed at roughly 1700-1800m altitude between 08-10 >> May 2019 in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. >> >> Thanks. >> Ashwini >> >> PS: Please note my new email address. Thanks. >> >> -- >> 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 view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAAKUM9C5eFSdPsmr4PqB1ULhA1OARUyCNLrCpdm33ZsFnvx9jA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAAKUM9C5eFSdPsmr4PqB1ULhA1OARUyCNLrCpdm33ZsFnvx9jA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAAKUM9ARavJvz4wtarqvemZ7_u%2BO_27Kw%3Dkk%3DrP7Jsq6eRpjrA%40mail.gmail.com.
