I am agree with *Leucomeris spectabilis* On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:27 AM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nidhan Singh <[email protected]> > Date: 10 June 2012 08:48 > Subject: [efloraofindia:119194] Flora of Chakrata 2012: Leucomeris > spectabilis for validation.. > To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> > > > Dear all, > > This is the only tree (though a small one) of Asteraceae family reported > from our nearby areas. This is most probably *Leucomeris spectabilis** D. > Don, Prodr. 170, 1825*; Kanjilal, For. Flora 302. > > A large shrub or small tree, with white corky bark, branches stout, > grooved. Leaves shortly petioled, 10-35 cm long, elliptic or elliptic > lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous above, densely white-tomentose beneath, > petioles dilated at base. Heads 2-2.5 cm long, in large, bracteolate, > tomentose corymbs. Involucral bracts nearly flat, inner linear-lanceolate, > acute, outer shorter. Corolla white. Achenes slender, 0.4-0.6 cm, densely > silky. Pappus 1.2 cm long, rigid, pale yellow. > > This tree flowers during March-May but we missed the flowering this time. > Shot from Dakpathar-Bairatkhai road, May 2012. I hope the identification is > correct. Kindly validate/rectify the identification.... > > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1870 members & > 1,18,000 messages on 31/5/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 6500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
