Nice introduction. On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > -- Dr Satish Phadke
