New plant for me. Thanks Nidhan ji for posting this. Regards Prashant On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Nidhan ji for introducing this plant to me. > > > -- > 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 Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> This one is *Atylosia scarabaeoides** (Linn.) Benth*., Pl. Jungh. 243, >> 1852; *Dolichos scarabaeoides *Linn., Sp. Pl. 2: 1020 >> >> A slender twiner, sometimes with woody basal portion, stem densely >> grey-pubescent. Leaves trifoliate, 3-5 cm long, subcoriaceous. Leaflets >> oblong or elliptic-obovate, obtuse or subacute, apex mucronate, base >> rounded, grey-pubescent above, densely downy and gland-dotted beneath, >> 3-nerved at the base, lateral leaflets oblique. Flowers 2-6, on short, >> densely pubescent, axillary peduncle. Sepals* *densely silky. Petalsyellow, >> 0.7-1.4 cm long, with orange streaks. >> Pod 2.0-2.5 cm, straight, 4-6-seeded, densely clothed with silky >> brownish hairs. >> Photographed from Morni-Panchkula road, October 2010 >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Dr. Nidhan Singh >> Department of Botany >> I.B. (PG) College >> Panipat-132103 Haryana >> Ph.: 09416371227 >> >> > > > >
