Yes Gurcharan Singh ji. I remember the looooong discussion we all had while i posted one of my plant. Thanks for sharing your collection. Nice pics again. Regards Prashant
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Campanula pallida* Wall. in Asiat. Research. 13:375. 1820 var. *pallida* > *syn: **Campanula* *colorata* Wall.; *Campanula* *himalayensis* Klotzsch; > *Campanula* *ramulosa* Wall. > > This species is one of the very thoroughly discussed in our group based on > plants uploaded by Prashant ji (with 35 responses) > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Campanula$20pallida/indiantreepix/qKMn1Es5wdQ/EAqhFhaHJtgJ > > After critical analysis I come to understand that the second set uploaded > by Prashant ji (not the first set which may be a different plant), his > plant represented on Flowers of India and my photographs from Chakrata > attached here belong to Campanula pallida var. pallida and share common > feature of triangular toothed calyx lobes much shorter than corolla and > covered with hispid hairs on calyx, corolla and leaves. > > Plant with ascending or erect stems up to 50 cm tall, hispid; leaves > alternate, elliptic, lanceolate to ovate, lower with winged petiole, upper > sessile, hispid especially along veins, margin denticulate to entire; > flowers purple to blue-purple, somewhat pendent, 10-12 mm long; calyx > deeply lobed, segments triangular, somewhat toothed, 3-6 mm long, hispid > especially along veins outside; corolla campanulate, lobes shoter than tube > or as long as tube; style included; capsule obovoid to globose, hairy. > > > -- > 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/ > >
