Thanks Rajesh ji for throwing further light on two families.
-- 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/ On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Rajesh Sachdev <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > >
