Thanks Bapu for the feedback.My information might be from older literature. Satish
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Bapu Gosavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > Friend > Punica is seprated from Lythraceae & now comes under family Punicaceae > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:23 PM, satish phadke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__QrJWaqfjh8/SLFcYRYeslI/AAAAAAAAA1o/GlPCqiQOjAc/s1600-h/Tamhan1.jpg> >> >> >> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__QrJWaqfjh8/SLFcY5MFA6I/AAAAAAAAA1w/v2XOfEPqSyw/s1600-h/Lagerstroemia1.jpg> >> Lagerstroemia >> >> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__QrJWaqfjh8/SLFcZqz4RzI/AAAAAAAAA14/CCzQkHgNa04/s1600-h/Woodfordia+fruiticosa%28Dhayti%29.jpg> >> Woodfordia >> >> FAMILY OF THE WEEK : LYTHRACEAE >> >> In India 13 genera and 50 species occur throughout tropical India. >> >> The common examples are pomegranate, Henna and crape myrtle. >> >> Vegetative characters: >> >> Herbs shrubs or trees. >> >> The important anatomical feature is the presence of bicollateral vascular >> bundles in the stem. >> >> The leaves are usually opposite or sometimes whorled, simple and entire. >> >> The stipules are absent or very small. >> >> Inflorescence and flowers: >> >> The flowers are terminal and solitary or cymose or axillary solitary or in >> small trichotomous cymes or in racemes or in panicles. >> >> The flowers are actinomorphic or sometimes zygomorphic as in Cuphea, >> hermaphrodite, usually four-,six-,or eight-merous and peri or epigynous. >> >> Usually a hypanthium is present from which sepals petals and stamens >> appear to arise. >> >> The sepals are four six or eight springing from the margin of the >> hypanthium. The aestivation is valvate. >> >> The hypanthium is frequently subtended by an epicalyx of connate bracts. >> The petals are as many as the sepals. The stamens are usually twice as many >> as the petals and are inserted below the petals. In Punica and Lagerstroemia >> they are numerous and are in many whorls. The gynoecium is two to six >> carpellary and syncarpous. >> >> Fruits and seeds: >> >> The fruit is usually a capsule dehiscing transversely or by valves or >> irregularly. In Punica it is a berry with a thick and leathery pericarp. The >> seeds are non endospermic and with a straight embryo. In Punica the outer >> seed coat becomes pulpy and it contains juice. >> >> Pollination and seed dispersal: >> >> The flowers are pollinated by bees which visit them for nectar which is >> collected in lower part of the hypanthium tube. The seeds are dispersed by >> wind water or by birds and animals. >> >> Examples: >> >> Lagerstroemia flos –reginae (syn) L. speciosa. (Queen crape myrtle)Tamhan >> >> Lagerstroemia indica(Crape myrtle) >> >> Lagerstroemia parviflora >> >> Lagerstroemia lanceolata >> >> Lawsonia inermis(syn)L.alba (Henna, Mehendi) >> >> Punica granatum(Pomegranate) >> >> Woodfordia fruticosa(Dhayti) >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
