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-- 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, Sep 23, 2012 at 2:39 AM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Singh ji, > Should we take it as *Acomastylis* *elata* var. *humilis* (Royle) F. > Bolle<http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-27806252> in > view of your remarks in the thread: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/hKIRyykZBcw > ? > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > Date: 5 October 2011 08:27 > Subject: [efloraofindia:85959] Acomastylis elata from Kashmir > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, Flowers of India < > [email protected]>, Tabish <[email protected]> > > > *Acomstylis elata* (Wall. ex G. Don) F. Bolle, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni > Veg. Beih. 72: 83 83 1933 > Syn: Geum elatum Wall. ex G. Don; Sieversia elata (Wall. ex G. Don) Royle > > Perennial herb with up to 30 cm long basal leaves, deeply pinnatisect with > closely set leaflets, upper few smaller; flowering stem with few small > leaves, with 1-6 flowers; flowers yellow, 2-4 cm across; calyx-lobes > deltoid-ovate; petals orbicular, exceeding the calyx, yellow; achenes > hairy, acute at both ends. > > Photographed from Khillenmarg Meadow, above Gulmarg Kashmir in last week > of June. > > I would like the members examine the plant uploaded on FOI. I have a > feeling that it may be a species of Potentilla and not Acomastylis elata. > Please go through following links. The species may rarely also have red > flowers. Please note larger flowers and emarginate petals. > > http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonimage/id64691/?taxonid=512223 > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/dagbjortj/2710300112/ > > http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/ph00012197 > > http://www.iiim.res.in/herbarium/rosaceae/acomastylis_elata.htm > > > > -- > 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1950 members & > 1,27,800 messages on 31/8/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7000 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > --
