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On Feb 7, 5:16 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > Galium-aparine-Harwan-Kashmir-1.jpg > 232KViewDownload > > Galium-aparine-Harwan-Kashmir-2.jpg > 208KViewDownload > > Galium-aparine-Harwan-Kashmir-3.jpg > 187KViewDownload
