Pankaj ji When I read your first line, I was taken aback, but luckily you explained it so well. It is Prenanthes brunoniana for sure.
-- 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/ On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Mr. Mahadeswara is right to the point that it doesnt look like > Asteraceae and in no ways it looks like Fuschia either (not even > distant relative). But there was a time when a family was erected > called Lactucaceae where this group was placed as they looked > differently, but they were merged back to asteraceae later on. > This is undoubtedly Prenanthes brunoniana as Prashant sir says! > Pankaj > > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Mahadeswara <[email protected]> wrote: > > It cannot be a Asteraceae member. For me, tt is not even > > Fuchsia . In Fuchsia the ovary is inferior. > > > > On Nov 28, 8:51 pm, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it a kind of Fuschia? > >> Tanay > >> > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:45 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Wild Herb captured on 13/8/10 during the trek from Ghangaria (around > 11,000 > >> > ft.) to Hemkunt Sahib (around 14000 ft.). > >> > -- > >> > With regards, > >> > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > >> > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > >> > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand > species* & > >> > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > >> > alphabetically & place-wise): > >> >http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them > >> > for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. > >> > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian > Flora, > >> > please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia: > >> >http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix(more than 1420 members > & > >> > 52,000 messages on 26/10/10 & with a database of around 4200 species > on > >> > 30/9/10) > >> > >> -- > >> *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] > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Research Associate > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > Department of Habitat Ecology > Wildlife Institute of India > Post Box # 18 > Dehradun - 248001, India >
