According to Wikipedia corolla of V .hederifolia is 1 cm i.e 10 mm wide and blue in color but corolla of this plant is just about 1mm wide.and pinkish white. Regards Taffazull
On Friday, March 17, 2023 at 4:11:38 PM UTC+5:30 taffa...@gmail.com wrote: > Dear Garg ji, > Thanks for the suggestion, > I think it cant be *V.hederifolia *because as Gurcharan ji has pointed > out in another post the pedicels of *hederifolia *are long but in this > plant they are barely 1-2 mm long. This is apart from the fact that it does > not occur in the Himalayas. Gurcharan ji in another post has mentioned > another Himalayan plant *V.stewartii *which has 3 lobed leaves and short > pedicels. However there are no details given so as to ascertain whether > it is V.stewartii or not. Information about the shape of the ovary would be > very helpful as most veronicas have flattened ovaries but this plant has a > globose ovary. Further in this plant all the four lobes of the corolla are > almost of equal size. > A local villager told me that villagers call it *"Zaw Ghas" *literally > meaning "Lice grass". I think this is so called because its tiny pinkish > white flowers resemble lice. > With regards > Taffazull > > On Friday, March 17, 2023 at 12:42:33 PM UTC+5:30 J.M. Garg wrote: > >> Looks different from similar looking species like as per images at >> https://efloraofindia.com/2011/04/05/veronica-persica/ >> https://efloraofindia.com/2011/04/05/veronica-didyma/ >> >> To me appears close to images (reported introduced in India) as per >> images and details >> https://efloraofindia.com/2019/03/19/veronica-hederifolia/ >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 16:02, taffa...@gmail.com <taffa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear members, >>> Am posting photos of a plant growing on the side of a path in Srinagar . >>> The photos were taken very recently. It is a hairy herb. The flowers are >>> minute about 1-2mm long with pinkish white corolla. Because of their small >>> size they look like dust specks to the naked eye and can only be examined >>> properly with a magnifying glass. All photos of flowers unless mentioned >>> were taken from specimens put under a dissecting microscope. It has four >>> lobes of very hairy calyx divided to base. The four lobes of corolla >>> (1-1.5mm) are divided to 3/4 of the length. Two stamens with filaments 1mm >>> long bearing minute anthers are adnate to the corolla, The ovary differs >>> from that of Veronicas in being globose. The style ends in a very hairy >>> stigma. Would request the members to suggest the correct ID if this herb. >>> Photo1 and Photo 2 are the plants (Each small square of graph paper=1mm) >>> Photo 3 is a view of the flower >>> Photo5 shows the two stamens adnate to corolla just as in *Veronica >>> persica* >>> Photo 8 is a photo of a mature fruit >>> With Regards >>> Taffazull >>> >>> -- >>> 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 indiantreepi...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/b5933e99-008e-4650-8cad-0197e71216e7n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/b5933e99-008e-4650-8cad-0197e71216e7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/7f964613-4d9b-4a6b-9abe-df4d68eb4a70n%40googlegroups.com.
