[Taxacom] Herb from Kashmir for ID

[Dr Gurcharan Singh]

It seems my photographs to the Group did not get through, although I had
reduced it to the acceptable size. I am providing the link to  my album for
those who can help me to identify this herb.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/583079633GKeRBm





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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/

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Dr Gurcharan Singh <singhg at sify.com> wrote:

> Dear Krishana Kaushik and David Boulford
>
> They were in the original message. I am forwarding again.
>
>
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> 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/
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dr Gurcharan Singh <singhg at sify.com>
> Date: Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:53 PM
> Subject: Herb from Kashmir for ID
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>
>
> 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.
>
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> 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/
>
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