Thank you Sir ji for the paper. Very nice paper on key to the genera based on achene characters. And yes today I learned a new word in Botany 'achene' meaning single-seeded fruits .Thank you
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot Madhuri ji. The last photograph is very useful for this group > of steraceae. In fact one can identify the plant only from this. Here is my > paper on this published in 1972. > > > -- > 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 Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sir ji, >> Very beautiful set of photographs. esp >> *Lactuca-scariola-Balgarden-Kashmir-3-DSC06662.jpg >> and the one showing *dehiscence. Never seen something like this >> before.Thank you Prasad ji for mentioning the word. I was waiting for >> someone to mention it so that I can share my appreciation too as I did not >> know how to describe it. >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Thanks Prasad ji >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:42 PM, prasad dash >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Sit to me both DSC06683 and DSC06267 are awesome. Never seen such a >>>> wonderful phorograph (DSC06267) of dehiscence. >>>> >>>> Regrads >>>> >>>> prasad >>>> >>>> * * >>>> >>>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> *Lactuca serriola* L., Cent. pl. II:29. 1756 (Amoen. acad. 4:328. >>>>> 1759) >>>>> syn: *Lactuca scariola* L.; *Lactuca augustana* All. >>>>> >>>>> Common name: Prickly lettuce >>>>> >>>>> Tall prickly herb reaching 1.5 m, branched, prickly towards base; >>>>> leaves sessile, pinnatifid with toothed segmrnts pointing downwards, >>>>> prickly on midrib and nerves beneath, upper leaves stem-clasping with >>>>> arrow-shaped base; heads yellow, 9-12 mm in diam., in long panicles with >>>>> spreading branches; involucre bracts oblong; achene brown nearly 3 mm long >>>>> with slender almost as long longer beak, pappus hairs white. >>>>> >>>>> Very common in Kashmir valley in wastelands, borders of fields and >>>>> road sides , photographed from Balgarden and University Campus in August. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Prasad Kumar Dash >>>> Ecologist, Orissa, India >>>> email: [email protected] >>>> ph. 09437444241 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade >> > > > > -- Regards Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade
