Thanks Sir mine also got name now On 1/15/12, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very nice upload > Family : Compositae. > (I am surprised to know that" The plant list" mentions the name as > Compositae rather than Asteraceae. I know both are same; which should be > used then or latest one? > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> *Chaetoseris hastata* (Wall. ex DC.) C.Shih, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 29(5): >> 404 (1991) >> syn: *Lactuca hastata* Wall. ex DC.; *Cicerbita* *cyanea* var. *hastata* >> (Wall. >> ex DC.) Beauverd >> >> Tall perennial herb up to 2 m tall glabrescent below, glandular pubescent >> above especially in the inflorescence; leaves up to 30 cm long, petiole >> somewhat winged, blade pinnatifid with large terminal lobe, upper >> progressively smaller; heads bhluish-purple, 18-22 mm long, in panicles, >> on >> nodding peduncles; outer involucre bracts about half as long as inner >> ones, >> bristly hairy; florets 10-30; achenes elliptic or obovate, 6 mm long >> (including beak), with beak white as long as dark brown body; pappus 5-6 >> mm >> long, dirty white. >> >> The plant looks similar in appearance to Prenanthes brunoniana but latter >> has only 3-5 florets in the head and achenes are not beaked. >> >> Common in Chakrata area growing among shrubs. Photographed in September. >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> > > > -- > Dr Satish Phadke >
-- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
