Great set Sir, never seen this sp before On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:28 AM, prasad dash <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
-- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
