Dear Gurcharan Singhji, Some link, I googled for more on Campanulaceae
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790309001973 Another link on Gentianaceae http://www.plantsystematics.com/qikan/manage/wenzhang/f930054.pdf Hope to participate this time as well. Best regards Rajesh On 1 July 2012 09:31, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Campanulaceae is a small family of nearly 2400 species distributed in > nearly 90 genera distributed primarily in Temperate regions, though also > represented in Tropics. Nearly 75 species are represented in India. > > Usually herbs, a few climbers, shrubs and trees; leaves usually alternate, > exstipulate, usually simple, sometimes somewhat lobed; flowers solitary, > spicate or in racemes, mostly blue in colour, though also white, purple and > other colours are represented; calyx tube partly adnate to ovary, lobes > free, 5, persistent; corolla gamopetalous, shallowly or deeply 5-lobed, > persistent; stamens 5, alternate with corolla lobes, filaments free or > united, often dilated at base; ovary 2-5 celled, somewhat inferior, > placentation axile; style linear, stigmas 2-5, spreading; fruit a 2-5 > valved capsule. > Important genera expected in our uploads: > > Asyneuma > Campanula > Codonopsis > Cyananthus > Lobelia > Phyteuma > Pratia > Wahlenbergia > > Gentianaceae is another small family with around 1500 species in nearly 90 > genera also mainly concentrated in temperate regions, extending to Alpine > and Arctic regions. Nearly 130 species in India. > Annual or perennial herbs, usually glabrous bitter herbs with opposite > leaves, rarely alternate, simple, entire, often united at base; stipules > absent; flowers solitary or in terminal paniculate clusters; Calyx > shallowly or deeply divided; corolla gamopetalous, 3-5 lobed, with or > without folds between the lobes, throat naked or fringed with scales; > stamens as many as corolla lobes; ovary superior, of two united carpels, > usually 1-celled with many ovules; stigma generally 2-lobed; fruit a > capsule opening by two valves. > Important genera expected in our uploads: > > Canscora > Crawfurdia > Enicostemma > Exacum > Gentiana > Gentianella > Halenia > Hoppea > Jaeschkea > Lomatogonium > Megacodon > Pleurogynella > Sebaea > Swertia > > > -- > 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 Rajesh Sachdev http://project-matheran.webs.com https://www.facebook.com/leopardguy
