Overview of Indian Plants

Saussurea simsoniana (Field & Gardn.) Lipsch. Asteraceae Small densely wooly herbs exposed, sometime pink wooly; achene very small warted or wrinkled. Fl. & Fr.: August-September. Elevation: 4000-5000m

Fritillaria roylei Hook. Liliaceae Glabrous bulbous herbs; leaves liner-lanceolate; 3-6 in a whorl; flower yellow-green solitary or 2-4 in racemes. Fl. & Fr.: June-October. Elevation: 2800-4000m.

Allium humile Kunth, Liliaceae Bulbs Cylendrical; leaves narrow, flat; flower white; segments reflexed. Fl. & Fr.: June-August. Elevation: 3500-3900m.

Gastrichilus distichus (Lindl.) Kuntz. Orchidaceae. Pseudobulbs branching, slender; herbs leafy; leaves fleshy, green, brown spotted, narrowly-lanceolate, acuminate, flowers green, spotted brown. Fl. & Fr.: May-June. Elevation: 200-2000m.

Dendrobium fimbriatum Hook. Orchidaceae Suberect sulcate herbs, leaves oblong lanceolate, acuminate; flowers yellow; lip fimbriate. Fl. & Fr.: May-July. Elevation: 1000-1700m.

Plant name:- Bauhinia galphinii N.E.Br. Family:-Caesalpiniaceae Description:-A semi-deciduous, sprawling, wide-spreading shrub to 10 feet tall by 15 feet wide with deeply lobed heart-shaped dark green leaves and bright brick-red or salmon-colored blooms appearing in the late summer through early winter.

Plant Name:- Aechmanthera gossypina (Wall.) Nees, Family:- Acanthaceae Description:- Herbs or subshrubs. 1.5 m tall, young stems and leaves dusky grey or whiteish villous, snowy or silvery wool, stem frutescent towards base and full of pitch, erect, 4-angular. Isophyllous, petioles 1.5 cm long, blade long ovate, 5-8 x 3-4 cm, acminate at apex, truncate, slightly unequal at base, margin irragularly cuneate, densely yellow white hairs adaxil, white wool on nerves abaxil; lateral nerves 9 each side, and convex abaxil. Flowers usually 3-fld. cymes clustered on terminal panicles. Bracts linear, 1 cm long, densely hairs. Pollen grains ellipoid, ornaments with bands.