Beautiful!! Sir You got for petal specimens also, mines were with only three
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > *Kohautia coccinea* Royle, Jll. Bot. Him. Mount. 241. t. 53. f. 1. 1835. > syn: Oldenlandia coccinea (Royle) Hook.f.; *Oldenlandia* *macrodonta* > Baker; *Pentas* *modesta* Baker > > Small annual herb, erect, slender, reaching 40 cm, minutely bristly; > leaves few, distant linear-lanceolate, 2-5 cm long; flowers red, pink to > orange, on lax few-flowered cyme, sometimes solitary, 5-7 mm across; > pedicel short elongating to 6 mm in fruit; calyx lobes linear, 2-5 mm long, > corolla tube 4-6 mm long, expanded above, lobes 4, sometimes 3, 2-3 mm > long, 2-3 mm long; capsule oblong to globose, 4-6 mm long with a minute > beak. > > Common in Tiger fall area of Chakrata, photographed 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/ > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
