Scrophulariaceae Fortnight: Veronica biloba from Kashmir -GS-48

[Gurcharan Singh]

Veronica biloba Linnaeus, Mant. Pl. 2: 172. 1771.

Erect annual herb usually branched from base; leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, up to 3 cm long, margin shallowly dentate; racemes mostly terminal, sparsely glandular hairy; bracts smaller than leaves, entire; calyx 4-lobed, lobes ovate-lanceolate, 4-8 mm long in fruit with entire margin, 3-veined; corolla white or blue-purple, 3-4 mm diam.; capsule strongly compressed, shorter than calyx, deeply notched, lobes appearing almost free; style very short, included in notch. 

Common as weed in fields and roadsides. Photographed from Gulmarg, Kashmir.

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[Nidhan Singh]

Thanks sir for this upload, I have shared this from Chakrata area..perhaps flowers in April-May, could not find this during present tour to the same place.. 

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[JM Garg]

[J.M. Garg]

A feedback from eFI page:
"In the end picture of set 2 above, you’ll see all the capsules are nodding (bending down). You’ll see the others pictures do not have this, and Flora of Turkey states explicitly that V. biloba capsules do not nod, and the illustration you provide likewise does not show nodding ( http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=3821&flora_id=2 ) . So I would suggest that picture is not V. biloba.
(There are certainly Veronica in Turkey with deeply split capsules which do nod, such as Veronica campylopoda, presumably there will be others taken across a wider geography.)
David"

Thanks, David ji, for your views. 

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes Garg ji, now I see my collections from Kashmir are a mix of two

First and third image with recurved pedicels, nodding capsules, capsules, covered with glandular hairs, longer style is C. campylopoda

2nd and 4th image with spreading pedicels,  erect capsules covered with short hairs and shorter style is V. biloba

They are from different locations. I will upload them separately with clearer high resolution images with locations.

[J.M. Garg]

Ok, Singh ji

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