Professor Sir, I am fully support of your view to do a re-postmortem on Urena issue in detail. For most common plants in India often neglected in such way that 'it is common'. When I was working on the *Begonia malabarica* Lam. I have seen pile of specimens in Indian herbaria bearing that name. But none of them represented the true species. I would suggest you to allocate this topic to any of your students and he/she can do a better research on this issue. I am ready to supply the specimens on loan from my side.
Thanking you Santhosh 2009/9/6 Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > Interactions of last two days point out that there is lot of variability > in Indian and more than one species and several varieties are at stake. I > suggest that as the plant is coming to flower and fruit, we check and report > the following things for bettrer understanding > > 1. Shape and incision of lower and uppermost leaves separately, including > their size > 2. whether ffruits are armed or not, and size > 3. Size of both epicalyx and calyx > 4. whether epicalyx is pressed to fruit or speading. > 5. Hairiness of plant, leaves and calyx. > 6. Any other unique feature. > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College > University of Delhi, Delhi > India > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45 > > > > -- SANTHOSH ----------------------------------- Dr. E S SANTHOSH KUMAR Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode Thiruvananthapuram-695562 Kerala, India www.drsanthosh.wetpaint.com Please consider your environmental responsibility:Before printing this e-mail, ask yourself whether you need a hard copy! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
