Nice Set Sir. New addition to my knowledge On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> While driving down the Jawahar tunnel towards Qazi Gund on Pir Panjal > range, I was struck by a species of Arabis with unusually large flowers, > almost twice the size of closely related species Arabis amplexicaulis. It > was after I studied the flowers carefully and hairs on stem that > I realized it to be Arabis bijuga, a species often confused with former, > but distinct in larger petals 12-15 mm long (as against 7-10 mm in Arabis > amplexicaulis), usually in diverging pairs (against equally spreading), and > stems and leaves with mostly stellate hairs (as against mostly simple > hairs). > > *Arabis bijuga* G. Watt in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18:378. 1881. > syn: *Arabis* *pangiensis* Watt > > Perennial herb up to 40 cm tall, erect, densely covered with short stalked > stellate hairs, with few simple ones; basal leaves in a rosette, > obovate-spatulate to oblanceolate on up to 5 cm long petiole, margin > dentate or entire, upper sessile, auriculate at base and narrower; flowers > white, in long ebracteate raceme, elongating in fruit, fruiting pedicels > diverging, up to 2.5 cm long; sepals oblong, 4-5 mm long; petals white or > pinkish, usually 12-15 mm long, in diverging pairs; fruit 3-6 cm long, > about 1 mm broad, glabrous. > > > -- > 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
