Garg ji thanks for trying but I wonder if it can be further helped without taking a dissecting microscope and taking higher pictures of the flower parts not possible at present for me
Lets hope some one can find enough in these pictures to get the dx usha di On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:01 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > Very nice pictures indeed. > First time observing a close up of Amaranth flowers the features of which > are necessary to reach upto species level. > I can't count the number of tepals and stamens ...hopefully they are 5each. > The leaf axil I think is without spines which rules out A. spinosus. > I can see the Bracts/bracteoles spinous tipped (a key character.) and it > is as long as or slightly longer than tepals. > They may be ovate acuminate which indicates *it might be A.cruentus*. > Dr Satish Phadke > > Thanks Satish, I need to pay more attention to smaller details when > encountering these small spikes... > > and thanks for the details > I have this one of the area where a leaf arose and a few flowers bunched > up, will this add any thing to your analysis? > Usha di > > Efi site link for this species: Amaranthus > cruentus<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/a/amaranthaceae/amaranthus/amaranthus-hybridus-subsp-cruentus> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> > Date: 5 February 2013 18:16 > Subject: [efloraofindia:145469] Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae Week:: UD > 008:: Amaranth family 5 to ID > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > *Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae Week:: UD 008:: Amaranth family 5 to > ID * > > *Amaranth family to 5 to ID > * > > > Dear All > > > This is one more amaranth from the garden by the river, this has green > flower spike… > > > Leaf size you can perhaps guess is about 4 inches long, > > the plants were just as tall as the ones with the red spikes > > in the earlier submission. > > > Need ID please > > > Thanks > > > Usha di > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2045 members & > 1,45,000 messages on 31/1/13) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 8000 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- Usha di =========== -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
