Satish ji Although flowers look somewhat similar to Ranunculus and Anemone, the genus differs primarily in fruit being a collection of follicles (each with several seeds) as against collection of achenes in the other two. More so the 6 orange-yellow structures you see are coloured sepals, the real petals are up to 16 in number, much smaller in size, mixed with stamens and you can see in form of linear structures below the stamens. From Caltha, which also has follicles and yellow flower represented by 5-6 sepals, it differs in deeply cut leaves and presence of petals.
-- 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 Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > We have seen many other Ranunculaceae plants from you but this Genus seems > to be new to me. Thanks for sharing this beautiful plant. > (On searching earlier mails I found a mail from Pankaj Kumar showing same > plant from Rohtang Pass) > Any specific unique character which makes it different from other > Ranunculaceae members? > Dr Satish Phadke > > > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Suresh Kumar Rana <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Bot. name: Trollius acaulis >> Family: Ranunculaceae >> Location: Paddar Valley J&K >> Altitude: 3400 meters >> Date: 17th May 2012 >> >> -- >> Warm regards >> Suresh Rana >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > -- > > > > --
