Rajesh ji and Srikant ji
My further scrutiny of Fimbristylis lawiana gave me Scirpus lawianus Boeck
(basionym), Trichelostylis digitata Dalzell ex Boeck and Fimbristylis
digitata Boeck as its synonyms. I went through the description of F.
digitata in FBI vol 6, page 648.
It goes like this: Glabrous, Stems 2-5 in., bristle-like base bulbous,
leaves as long as 1/2 stem, bristle-like; bracts 2-1, shorter than head;
spikelets 3-8, 1/4-1/2 by 1/12-1/8 in, 6-18 fld, straw-colrd. in a
subterminal head glumes ovate-oblong, scarcely acute, keeled, chaffy, nearly
1-colrd. style 3-fid, nearly as long as nut, glabrous, deciduous with small
pyramidal style-base, branches linear; nut obovoid smooth straw colrd.
finally brownish, as long as 1/2 glume, sessile, round-trigonous, obtuse at
tip.
I wonder if our plant is F. lawiana, how could the white colour of
spikes and styles was ignored by original authors. Also the leaves seem to
be much broader and not bristle-like.
Let us continue our struggle with this plant.
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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Srikant ji
> Thanks for providing some leads, but I could not find any image on the
> internet. Let us wish this is the first one, till then the ghost still
> remains not only for Rajesh ji but even for me for the sheer beauty of the
> belonging to otherwise insignificant family.
>
> --
> Dr. Gurcharan Singh
> 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/
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:12 AM, shrikant ingalhalikar <
> le...@rediffmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Rajesh,
>>
>> Assuming that this is an annual herb with linear leaves crowded near
>> base, stem less than 15 cm long then this plant is Fimbristylis of
>> Cyperaceae. (I recollect having conveyed this to you directly) Further
>> ID of sp. will be accurate only with a specimen but in the present
>> circumstances we assume that stamens and stigmas were 3 each and style
>> is 2.5 mm long then this is F. lawiana (Boeck) Kern. I have made
>> further assumtions because I have seen/photographed this plant in
>> similar area and in the same season, but only a specimen would confirm
>> these characters. I hope this relieves you of the ghost, I carry
>> hundreds of them. Regards
>> Shrikant Ingalhalikar
>>
>> On Dec 17, 6:41 pm, Rajesh Sachdev <leopard...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The most surfaced flower in ITP and FOI web portals.......Trying to find
>> out
>> > the answer from anyone, who knows abt it.....Can't forget June 30th of
>> 2009
>> > at about 08.30 AM when I first photographed this flower.... it
>> > still chases me like a ghost...would chase me, till i get it IDed. Can't
>> > wait for next monsoon, when i would visit Matheran (near Mumbai) again
>> in
>> > 2010 same date and same time, to get this flower plucked and show it to
>> > seniors in Mumbai/Pune.
>> >
>> > http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/Unidentified/slides/RS01.html
>> >
>> > <http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/Unidentified/slides/RS01.html>
>> http://picasaweb.google.co.in/leopardguy/FlowersPlants#53731879195104...
>> >
>> > <
>> http://picasaweb.google.co.in/leopardguy/FlowersPlants#53731879195104...>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/leoparguy/3675867054/in/set-721576228857...
>> >
>> > <
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/leoparguy/3675867054/in/set-721576228857...>
>> > --
>> > Regards
>> > Rajesh Sachdev
>> > Mumbai,India
>> > +91 98902-55616
>> > rajeshdsach...@googlemail.com
>> > rajesh_sach...@in.comwww.rajesh-sachdev.blogspot.comhttp://
>> www.flickr.com/photos/leoparguy/
>> > ---
>> >
>> > P6300079.JPG
>> > 78KViewDownload
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