Nice Write up and Pics Joseph Ji On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Mr. Joby Joseph <[email protected] > wrote:
> Kindly see the attachments. I was unable to insert the photos within the > documents. and please do inform me if it is against any posting guidelines > as I'm not a regular man here!. > > *Heracleum rigens* Wall.****** > > Description:- Rootstock stout, stem puberulous or pubescent.Leaves of > three to five leaflets. Leaflets and their lobes rounded, margin serrate or > dentate. Rays of umbel numerous (fifteen to thirty), 2 to 3 inches: pedicel > 1/2 inch, sepals green with pink tips. Petals creamy yellow, anthers dark > reddish purple. Mericarps when fresh half as thick as broad, 1/3 to 1/2 > inch, broadly elliptic, brownish red or pink, drying flat: inside vittas > four, slender extending half to three-fourth down, as regards width > occupying the middle half of the fruit, i.e., in two very close pairs. > (Ref: P.F. Fyson (1932). The Flora of the South Indian Hill Stations. Vol.I > P-255-256)**** > > ** ** > > A tall, erect, greyish-pubescent herb reaching 3 ft. in height, with > yellow flowers, the leaves both radical and cauline, remarkable for the > distant, more or less orbicularcordate, slightly lobed leaflets. (Ref: J.S. > Gamble, (1915). Flora of the Presidency of Madras. Vol:I. P-564.)**** > > -- > > > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 --
