Very Beautiful Pics Sir On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/ >> >> > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
