Wao...... Sir Ji. One of the absolutely engineered snap of a very interesting plant. Looks great in ur lens.
Regards prasad On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Veronica beccabunga* subsp. *muscosa* (Korshinsky) Elenevsky, Byull. > Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. 82: 153. 1977. > syn: *Veronica beccabunga* var. *muscosa* Korshinsky; Veronica > beccabunga auct. (non L.) > > Perennial herb of wetlands; stems spreading or ascending, succulent; > leaves suborbicular, ovate or oblong, up to 2.5 cm long, serrulate or > crenulate, 5-9 toothed on each side, petiole 1-5 mm long; flowers > purple-blue in axillary racemes, 5-15 flowered, almost as long as > subtending leaf; pedicel 3-8 mm long; calyx 4-lobed, lobes > ovate-lanceolate; corolla rotate, 4-5 mm in diam.; capsule slightly > compressed, 3-4 mm long, 3-5 mm broad, notch shallow, style 1-2 mm long. > > Common in Kashmir valley on wet slopes especially along mountain streams, > borders of ponds, wet patches of soil. Photographed from Gulmarg, Pahalgam > and Sonamarg. > > Subsp. *beccabunga *reportedly occurs in Europe and North America. > > -- > 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
