Dr. Bruno (Vienna) and Dr. Malecot for Group TAXACOM helped me in identification of this herb as Sanguisorba minor (syn: Poterium sanguisorba L.), a plant distributed in Persia, Waziristan in Pak, Europe but I suppose not reported from India. The leaves of Garden burnet or salad burnet are often used for culinary purposes.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor, Department of Botany, SGTB Khalsa College University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018 Phone: 01125518297; Mobile: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends > This elusive herb I photographed from open hillside above Cheshma Shahi in > Kashmir in May. The plant barely up to 80 cm tall had alternate pinnate > compound leaves up to 12 cm long, with deeply toothed leaflets, 9-13 in > number, with two stipules at base, toothed like leaflets. Flowers > unisexual, on long peduncles, forming separate globose heads; male flowers > with four broadly ovate to nearly orbicular perianth 3-5 mm long, greenish > white with membranous margin, stamens numerous hanging; female flowers with > seemingly 4 perianth, appearing three in some, green with membranous > margin, persistent; fruits of apparantly four nutlets, fused along raised > margin. > I am not able to even identify the family, which initially I thought > to be Urticaceae, but four nutlets are confusing me. Could you kindly > provide a clue. > > -- > 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/ > >
