Looks uncannily similar to mustard plant fruiting?? Nice and new to me Usha di]
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice Catch Sir. New for me > > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Descurainia sophia* (L.) Webb ex Prantl, H. G. A. Engler & K. A. E. >> Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(2):192. 1891 >> Syn: *Sisymbrium sophia* L. >> >> Common names: flixweed, herb-Sophia, tansy mustard >> Hindi: Khubkallana >> >> A very distinctive annual herb reaching 1 m tall with leaves 2-3 >> pinnatisect into linear segments; lower leaves stalked, upper sessile; >> flowers yellow, hardly 2-3 mm across, in up to 30 cm long racemes (in >> fruit) with usually more than 50 flowers; pedicel filiform, up to 1.5 cm in >> fruit; sepals about 2 mm long, petals slightly longer; fruit narrowly >> linear, up to 3 cm long, obscurely torulose. >> >> Very common in Kashmir valley, found on road sides and wastelands. >> Photographed from Badam Vari, Srinagar, Kashmir >> >> Seeds are given in desentery and calculus complaints, some times also as >> substitute for mustard and plant preparations used to eradicate >> worms(according to Flora of China). >> >> -- >> 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 ===========
