Superb Shots Sir On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Prasad Dash <[email protected]>wrote:
> Beautiful flowers of all Swertia. thanks for another good upload Sir. > > Regards > > prasad > > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Swertia alata* (G. Don) Clarke in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4:125. 1883. >> syn: *Agathotes* *alata* D.Don ; *Ophelia* *alata* (G. Don) Griseb. >> >> Annual herb up to 40 cm tall, 4-angled; cauline leaves sessile to >> subsessile, ovate-cordate, 3-6 cm long, usually 5 nerved (3-7 nerved); >> flowers 4-merous in panicles; calyx lobes 4-6 mm long, narrowly ovate; >> corolla greenish yellow with one rounded depression at base of each lobe, >> minutely pubescent or glabrous; filaments 4-6 mm long. >> >> Photographed from Chakrata Deovan Herbal Garden in September. >> >> -- >> 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, Odisha, India > email: [email protected] > ph. 09437444241 > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
