Amazing shots Sir On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Galium aparine* L., Sp. P1. 108. 1753. > > Annual herb with trailing or climbing stems, with hooked hairs or > prickles; leaves in whorls of 6-8, linear, narrowly lanceolate or > oblanceolate to almost obovate, 10-35 mm long, tip mucronate or cuspidate, > margin scabrous, upper surface hispid, main vein single with fine lateral > nerves; flowers 1.5-2 mm across, white, in 3-flowered axillary cymes on > 15-20 mm long peduncle; pedicel elongated to 8 mm in fruit; fruit 3-5 mm > across, covered with hooked hairs, mericarps distinct. > > Common in Kashmir among roadside herbs and shrubs and in wastelands. > Photographed from Harwan, Kashmir > > -- > 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
