Asteraceae?? Thank you. Saroj Kasaju
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 1:46 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members, > Kindly help ID this herb with a peculiar inflorescence. > Habitat: Edge of lawn in Rawathpora Srinagar > Habit: Herb. There is a rosette of basal leaves 15-18 cm long, lanceolate > with winged petioles. Inflorescences borne on 18-20 cm long erect branches > at the end of 10cm long pedicels., Inflorescence has an involucre of two > whorls of bracts. Outer whorl has six dark green bracts 1cm long and 4mm > wide. Inner whorl has about 8 light green bracts 2mm wide. The striking > thing about the inflorescence is that it has 7 pentagonal flowers 1 mm dia > with a red spot in center, Anthers are not visible. The red spot could be > the stigma. Flowers have transparent colorless tepals (?) about 0.2mm long > (Seen more clearly in photos of LS (Longitudinal sections) of > inflorescences. > All photos taken on 25th or 26th of July > All photos under CC-BY license(Only Attribution needed) > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/a534fce6-bd6f-4a57-980b-3fceb80de21en%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/a534fce6-bd6f-4a57-980b-3fceb80de21en%40googlegroups.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/CAEf%3DytT1LR0gRDC0iL4A_RtZnf2x8kUAePcexk4qFP9r5-CZAA%40mail.gmail.com.
