Dear Prof. Singh ji, every day I open my mailbox I experience ??????????? Thanks for all these beautiful Fotos. Regards Nalini
----- Original Message ----- From: Gurcharan Singh To: efloraofindia ; Flowers of India Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 6:13 AM Subject: [efloraofindia:43843] Tragopogon kashmirianus from Kashmir Tragopogon kashmirianus G. Singh from Kashmir, a species that I had described in 1976 (Forest Flora of Srinagar p. 123, fig. 4), an allotetraploid species. Photographed from hill above Cheshmashahi on June 26, 2010. The species is characterised among other things by ray florets with purple striated yellow corolla. The flowers open in the morning and close at noon,and as such I could not catch an open head. I have as such split a closed head to show the corolla. Details are available on: http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/gsnomen.html#New Species described Recently important molecular research was done on this species and results published in 2008: Molecular data reveal that the tetraploid Tragopogon kashmirianus(Asteraceae: Lactuceae) is distinct from the North American T. mirus Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society Volume 158, Issue 3, pages 391–398, November 2008 The paper is available on-line http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00900.x/abstract -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
