Great photos of Swertia spp regards
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Narendra Joshi <narend...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On 18 January 2012 16:20, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> *Swertia alata* (G. Don) Clarke in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4:125. 1883. >> syn: *Agathotes* *alata* D.Don ; *Ophelia* *alata* (G. Don) Griseb. >> >> Annual herb up to 40 cm tall, 4-angled; cauline leaves sessile to >> subsessile, ovate-cordate, 3-6 cm long, usually 5 nerved (3-7 nerved); >> flowers 4-merous in panicles; calyx lobes 4-6 mm long, narrowly ovate; >> corolla greenish yellow with one rounded depression at base of each lobe, >> minutely pubescent or glabrous; filaments 4-6 mm long. >> >> Photographed from Chakrata Deovan Herbal Garden 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/ >> >> > Beautiful flowers and cute plant very well captured Sir! > > -- > With Regards, > Narendra Joshi > -- Dr. Amit Chauhan Junior Technical Assistant Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Research Centre, Pantnagar, PO Dairy Farm Nagla, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand 263149 ph.05944 234445 mob.+919412161087 mail: amitci...@gmail.com amitci...@rediffmail.com amit.chau...@cimap.res.in
