Here is the reply I received from Dr. Collen Hughes, for my Calliandra species. Dear Kenneth, it seems closer to our guess on C. calothyrsus..
Dr. Gurcharan Singh Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College University of Delhi, Delhi India http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Hughes" <[email protected]> To: "'Gurcharan Singh'" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 8:46 PM Subject: RE: [Taxacom] Help in identification > Dear Gurcharan, > > Your plant is indeed Calliandra and is very close to Calliandra > houstoniana > (Miller) Standley, a species widespread throughout Mexico and Central > America. Like most Calliandras it is night-flowering, your image taken by > day.... This species was treated by Barneby in a broad sense to include a > number of infraspecific varieties in his monograph of Calliandra published > in 1998 [Mem NYBG 74(3)]. > > Best regards > > Colin > > Dr. Colin E. Hughes > Department of Plant Sciences > University of Oxford > South Parks Road > OXFORD > OX1 3RB > UK > Tel: +44 (0)1865 275836 (direct) > Tel: +44 (0)1865 275000 (switchboard) > Fax: +44 (0)1865 275074 > Email: [email protected] > http://dps.plants.ox.ac.uk/plants/staff/ColinHughes.aspx > http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/?leucaena > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gurcharan Singh > Sent: 06 September 2009 11:59 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Taxacom] Help in identification > > Dear members > I seek your help in the identification of this shrub-tree growing in > Herbal > garden in Delhi. It has bipinnate leaves with hardly 1-1.5 mm broad > pinnules, so closely set that they look pinnate leaves. The flowers look > like Calliandra, but in few flowered umbels. calyx is almost saucer > shaped. > 5 thick petals 6-8 mm long, are united for lower 1.5 mm or so. They are > white inside, dark brown outside. Stamens and rachis are covered with > reddish-brown pubescence. > > > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/c540397a > 0035081c?hl=en# > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College > University of Delhi, Delhi > India > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45 > _______________________________________________ > > Taxacom Mailing List > [email protected] > http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom > > The Taxacom archive going back to 1992 may be searched with either of > these > methods: > > (1) http://taxacom.markmail.org > > Or (2) a Google search specified as: > site:mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom your search terms here > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
