Beautiful Catch Sir On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Saussurea albescens (DC.) Sch.Bip., Linnaea 19: 330 1846. > syn: Aplotaxis albescens DC. > Family: Asteraceae > > Tall perennial herb reaching 3 m with several stems from base; leaves > linear, lanceolate, elliptic to oblong, lower petioled and sinuately lobed, > upper entire and nearly sessile, up to 30 cm long, white woolly beneath; > Flower-heads purplish, subcylindrical, up to 12 mm long, 5 mm broad, many in > branched flat-topped corymbs. > > Common in Kashmir valley on dry open slopes. Photographed from Kashmir > University botanical garden, and from below Jawahar Tunnel. > > > > -- > 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/ >
-- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
