thanks for sharing tanay On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> Having uploaded the photographs of Potentilla gerardiana (syn: P. > fragarioides) from Kashmir I was had found large stipules of the plant to be > unusual. > Now having seen the specimens uploaded by Ritesh ji from Manali region > which I think truly belong to P. gerardiana (syn: P. fragarioides; only > species with pinnate leaves (not interruptly pinnate) and larger petals > reported by Collet in Fl. Simlensis): > > https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12be1a095cf14cc3 > > <https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12be1a095cf14cc3> This leads > me to rethink about the identity of my plant from Kashmir and am inclined to > identify it with Potentilla clarkei, a species reported from Srinagar in FBI > (page 351, S. No. 17). > The species is characterised by "Plant stout, with long spreading hairs, > stipules large, leafy, lower leaflets smaller, inflorescence stiff with > divaricate branches, bracts forming an involucre, petals yellow, obovate, > stamens numerous" > > I am uploading the photographs again for your valuable comments. > > > -- > 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/ > > -- *Tanay Bose* Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. Department of Botany. University of British Columbia . 3529-6270 University Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) 604-822-2019 (Lab) [email protected]
