Thanks a lot Prashant ji
-- 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 Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote: > Most of the Brassicaceae sp. look so similar, really difficult to arrive > at ID in absence of key characters. Now i understand why Gurcharan Singh ji > always insists for the photographs of leaves and other key characters. > > Thanks for showing us so many similar looking yet altogether different > plants.. > > Regards > Prashant > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> *Barbaraea vulgaris* Aiton, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4:109. 1812 >> Syn: *Barbaraea* *vulgaris* var. *taurica* Hook. f. & T. And.; * >> Barbaraea* *arcuata* (Opiz ex Presl) Reichenb. >> >> Common names: Yellow rocket, wintercress, bittercress >> >> Very easily identified from B. intermedia by uppermost cauline leaves >> being undivided, sessile, amplexicaule at base, irregularly toothed and >> slightly upcurved siliqua, and basal leaves with much larger cordate >> terminal lobe. >> Erect glabrous herbs up to 80 cm tall with angled branched stem; basal >> leaves petiolate with up to 8 cm long petiole, with large ovate to >> orbicular and cordate terminal lobe and 1-3 pairs of very small lateral >> lobes; upper cauline leaves ovate to suborbicular, amplexicaul, irregularly >> dentate; flowers yellow, in condensed raceme, elongating in fruit; bracts >> absent; pedicel up to 7 mm in fruit; sepals yellow, oblong 3-4 mm long; >> petals spatulate, yellow, 5-6 mm long; siliqua linear, 15-28 mm long, less >> than 1.5 mm broad, slightly upcurved terminating in slender 2-3 mm long >> style. >> >> Photographed from Gulmarg and Pahalgam in Kashmir in My, 2012. >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > --
