I love this and the other geraniums Thanks USha di
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote: > Another nice upload. Thanks. > Regards > Prashant > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Nice Set of Pics Sir >> >> >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> Thanks Tabish ji for alerting me for my upload of G. pusillum which >>> finally turned out be Geranium molle >>> >>> >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Geranium$20pusillum/indiantreepix/b3P7qw6_5Cg/_QBb4S0x7wcJ >>> >>> >>> Geranium pusillum is much more common species in Kashmir, but having >>> clicked similar species in June in 2010 (which grows in Kashmir, but never >>> seen by me before), confused me. >>> Having visited Kashmir in May this year I was able to click G. pusillum >>> this year. I am uploading the same. The two closely related species can be >>> separated as under: >>> >>> *Geranium molle:* petals deeply notched, 3-8 mm long, longer than >>> sepals; leaf lobes closer together; carpels wrinkled; filaments glabrous in >>> upper part >>> *Geranium pusillum: *petals shallowly notched, 2.5-3.5 mm long, >>> scarcely exceeding sepals; leaf lobes diverging from base; carpels smooth; >>> filaments hairy in upper part >>> >>> Another closely similar species G. rotundifolium has petals rounded at >>> tip, not notched. >>> >>> *Geranium pusillum* L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1144. 1759. >>> >>> Common name: small-flower crane's-bill >>> >>> Spreading annual herb; leaves opposite, suborbicular to reniform, 15-25 >>> mm across, 5-7 lobed, lobes widely diverging, 3-fid at tip; stipules >>> lanceolate, 2 mm long; flowers pale purple, 4 mm across, on 2-flowered up >>> to 3.5 cm long peduncle; sepals 2-3 mm long, shortly mucronate; petals >>> 2.5-3.5 mm long; fertile stamens single whorl, filaments hairy, outer >>> without anthers; mericarps not wrinkled, appressed pubescent, beak 7-9 mm >>> long. >>> >>> Photographed from Balgarden, Srinagar, Kashmir in May 2012 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >> > > -- Usha di ===========
