Nice Startup Sir, Hope this time i will be able to contribute little bit. Thanks
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> > > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
