Sir Ji did you get new lens? The macros came out really great! Tanay On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Aarti S. Khale <aarti.kh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Gurcharan ji, > Beautiful pictures. > Where exactly is Apharwat? > Is it the same place you go further up from Gulmarg? > Aarti > > On Dec 18, 8:56 am, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > *Silene cashmeriana* (Royle) Majumdar, J. Indian Bot. Soc. 42: 649 649 > , > > 1963 > > Syn: *Lychnis* *cashmeriana* Royle ; *Melandrium* *cashmerianum* > (Royle) > > Walp. ; *Silene indica* var. *cashmeriana* (Majumdar) Y. Nasir > > > > Similar to Silene indica but with more robust habit, scaberulous ovate to > > ovate-lanceolate leaves, flowers larger in contracted cymes, calyx larger > > 18-25 mm long, green with purplish veins, distinct acute lobes; petals > are > > distinct from both S. indica var. indica and S. indica var. edgeworthii; > > limb as long as var. indica but lobes much more and deeply cut, half as > > long as var. edgeworthii but not fimbriate; carpophore 1/4 as long as > > capsule. > > > > Photographed from Apharwat mountain slopes alt. 3200 m in Kashmir. > > > > -- > > 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > > Silene-cashmeriana-Apharwat-Kashmir-1-P1110224.jpg > > 257KViewDownload > > > > Silene-cashmeriana-Apharwat-Kashmir-1-P1110226.jpg > > 392KViewDownload > > > > Silene-cashmeriana-Apharwat-Kashmir-2-P1110227.jpg > > 341KViewDownload > > > > Silene-cashmeriana-Apharwat-Kashmir-3-P1110223.jpg > > 311KViewDownload > -- *Tanay Bose* Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. Department of Botany. University of British Columbia . 3529-6270 University Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) 604-822-2019 (Lab) 604-822-6089 (Fax) ta...@interchange.ubc.ca *Webpages:* http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/
