[Taxacom] Taxacom Digest, Vol 76, Issue 6

[Jeffrey Gunther]

Unsubscribe

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM, <taxacom-request at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> Send Taxacom mailing list submissions to
>         taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>         http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>         taxacom-request at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
>         taxacom-owner at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Taxacom digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
>    1. Herb from Kashmir for ID (Dr Gurcharan Singh)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 20:53:40 +0530
> From: Dr Gurcharan Singh <singhg at sify.com>
> Subject: [Taxacom] Herb from Kashmir for ID
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Message-ID:
>         <CAKXEwg7KgeeqbbixokPaeWojd8-=iGmxGOCWZVb78VPRyjMN=
> w at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Dear members
> This elusive herb I photographed from open hillside above Cheshma Shahi in
> Kashmir in May. The plant barely up to 80 cm tall had alternate pinnate
> compound leaves up to 12 cm long, with deeply toothed leaflets, 9-13 in
> number, with two stipules at base, toothed like leaflets. Flowers
> unisexual, on long peduncles, forming separate globose heads; male flowers
> with four broadly ovate to nearly orbicular perianth 3-5 mm long, greenish
> white with membranous margin, stamens numerous hanging; female flowers with
> seemingly 4 perianth, appearing three in some, green with membranous
> margin, persistent; fruits of apparantly four nutlets, fused along raised
> margin.
>     I am not able to even identify the family, which initially I thought to
> be Urticaceae, but four nutlets are confusing me. Could you kindly provide
> a clue.
>
> --
> Dr. Gurcharan Singh
> Retired Associate Professor, Department of Botany, SGTB Khalsa College
> University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018
> Phone: 01125518297; Mobile: 9810359089
> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Taxacom Mailing List
>
> Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>
> http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
>
> The entire Taxacom Archive back to 1992 can be searched with either of
> these methods:
>
> http://taxacom.markmail.org
>
> Or use a Google search specified as:  site:
> mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom  your search terms here
>
> Celebrating 25 years of Taxacom in 2012.
>
> End of Taxacom Digest, Vol 76, Issue 6
> **************************************
>