Many thanks for this upload, Gurcharan ji. Balkar ji too has uploaded this plant; new for me.
Regards. Dinesh On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
