Never seen even a picture of this, though I had not gone looking for it either, thanks for the demonstration...
what a weird shaggy structure, I was wondering it must have taken the botanists of yore a great deal of patience to dissect the flowers etc and study the plant to arrive at this classification.................... usha di == On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Arnebia benthamii* (Wall. ex G. Don) I. M. Johnston, J. Arn. Arb. 35:56. > 1954 > syn: *Echium benthamii* Wall. ex G. Don; *Macrotomia benthamii* (Wall. > ex G. Don) A. DC; *Lithospermum* *benthamii* (Wall. ex G. Don) I. M. > Johnston > > Perennial herb with simple stem up to 70 cm tall covered with stiff long > hairs; roots thick; leaves linear, basal leaves up to 25 cm long, linear to > lanceolate, covered with bristly hairs, upper smaller; flowers red-purple, > partially covered with long linear drooping bracts, forming a cylindrical > spike; corolla about 25 mm long with spreading lobes; calyx lobes tipped > with purple. > > Photographed from near Jawahar tunnel and from Kashmir University > Botanical Garden. > > > > -- > 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/ > > -- Usha di ===========
