Thanks Satish ji for additional information. Hydrocera triflora is reported even in Flora of British India (1872) from Bengal, Eastern and Western Peninsula, Burma and Ceylon
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Gurcharan ji > Great start with clear description of all 3 families. > *The famous age old Cook's flora mentions a combined family Geraniaceae > with 6 genera mentioned under it namely* > Monsonia > Erodium > Oxalis > Biophytum > Averrhoa > Impatiens > *BSI Mah. Flora mentions the plants in Mah. as follows* > *Family : Geraniaceae* > Monsonia senegalensis > Geranium ocellatum var.ocellatum and var. himalaicum > and cutivated Pelargonium sp. > *Family Averrhoaceae* > Only cultivated sp. Averrhoa bilimbii and Averrhoa carambola > *Family : Oxalidaceae* > Oxalis: acetocella; corniculata; deppei; dehradunensis; debilis > var.corymbosa. > Cutivated: O.rosea; variabilis var.rubra > *Family : Balsaminaceae* > Impatiens with its many species. > No mention of any plant found from genus Hydrocera. > Biophytum: candolleanum; sensitivum; helenae;reinwardtii > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I think the closely related family Tropaeolaceae may be covered during the > week as it is less likely to get covered otherwise but of course there are > many more closely related families which we may cover later. You take the > decision later. > Thanks > > Dr Satish Phadke > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Many thanks Gurcharan ji for this helpful information; and very glad that >> we have vigilant eyes of Santhosh ji for validating Oxalidaceae members. >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Balsaminaceae >>> A family with two genera and more than 1000 species belonging to >>> Impatiens and single to Hydrocera >>> >>> The Plants are annual or perennial herbs, rarely undershrubs, somewhat >>> succulent and sometimes rooting at nodes; leaves simple, alternate, >>> opposite or whorled, without stipules but with often with glands at base of >>> petiole; leaf margine entire or serrate, teeth sometimes gland-tipped; >>> flowers bisexual, in racemes or umbel-like clusters, rarely solitary, >>> zygomorphic; sepals usually 3, rarely 5, lateral sepals free or connate, >>> lower sepal large, petaloid, constricted back into a shortl or long, >>> straight or curved spur, rarely without spur; petals 5, free; upper >>> petaloften crested; lateral petals usually united in pairs; stamens 5, >>> often connate; carpels 4-5, united, 4-5 locules; style short with 1-5 >>> stigmas; fruit a berry or a capsule opening elastically and explosively >>> dispersing the seeds. >>> Genera >>> *Impatiens* >>> *Hydrocera* >>> >>> There are numerous species in India, often difficult to identify. >>> Members are requested to focus on the following characters while uploading >>> photographs for identification: >>> >>> 1. Height of plant >>> 2. Leaves alternate, opposite or in whorls >>> 3. Leaf margin, especially glands on teeth tips >>> 4. Glands at base of petiole >>> 5. Flower size and colour or shades >>> 6. Inflorescence type, racemen, umbellate cluster or solitary >>> 7. size, form of spur, straight or curved, nature of tip >>> 8. Form of lateral fused petals >>> 9. shape and size of fruit >>> 10. Fruit erect, horizontal or erect. >>> >>> >>> Geraniaceae >>> A family with seven genera nearly 750 species mainly distributed in >>> Temperate and subtropical regions. >>> >>> The plants are usually herbs, rarely undershrubs, sometimes aromatic >>> (Pelargonium), stems swollen at nodes, usually with stalked glandular >>> hairs. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple or palmately lobed, or >>> compound, venation palmate, reticulate, stipules conspicuous. Inflorescence >>> cymose umbel, rarely solitary. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, rarely >>> zygomorphic (Pelargonium), hypogynous, pentamerous. Calyx with 5 sepals, >>> free, green, persistent, sometimes >>> spurred (Pelargonium). Corolla with 5 petals, rarely 4 or absent, free, >>> often clawed, imbricate, nectar glands alternating with petals or absent. >>> Androecium with 10 (Geranium) or 15 (Monsonia) stamens, rarely 5 (other 5 >>> sterile-Erodium), usually connate at base, sometimes pentadelphous >>> (Monsonia), rarely free, >>> anthers bithecous, dehiscence by longitudinal slits, pollen grains >>> tricolpate or triporate. Gynoecium with 5 united carpels, ovary superior, >>> usually lobed, placentation axile, ovules usually 2 in each loculus, >>> anatropous or campylotropous, style 1, slender and beaklike. Fruit a >>> capsular dehiscent schizocarp >>> with 5 1-seeded segments that separate elastically from central column, >>> and often opening to release seeds (Geranium), or indehiscent schizocarp >>> (Biebersteinia); seeds usually without aril, pendulous, embryo curved, >>> endosperm usually absent or scanty. Pollination by insects. Mostly self >>> dispersed by explosive opening of schizocarps throwing seeds several metres >>> away. Genera expected >>> *Geranium* >>> *Pelargonium* >>> *Erodium * >>> *Monsonia* >>> * >>> * >>> The members are requested to take care of following features while >>> uploading the plants for identification: >>> 1. Habit annual or perennial >>> 2. Leaf circular or angular in outline, and number of lobes >>> 3. Number of flowers in a cluster >>> 4. Size of flower (diameter) >>> 5. The length of sepal awn >>> 6. length of beak >>> >>> >>> >>> Oxalidaceae >>> Family with 8 genera and more than 800 genera mainly in tropical and >>> subtropical regions of the world. >>> >>> Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs or trees, sometimes stemless >>> with all basal leaves; leaves alternate or whorled; palmately or palmately >>> compound, leaflets entire, often folded together at night ; flowers in >>> racemes, umbellate clusters or solitary, bisexual, actinomorphic; sepals >>> free or connate at base; petals 5, usually free; stamens 10, in two whorls, >>> outer whorl opposite the petals, with shorter filamens, filaments connate >>> at base; carpels fused, 5, 5-chambered with 2-many ovules in each chamber; >>> styles free; fruit a capsule or berry; seeds with aril. Genera expected in >>> India >>> *Oxalis* >>> *Biophytum * >>> *Averrhoa* >>> * >>> * >>> While uploading the photographs for identification members are requested >>> to focus on the following characters >>> 1. Plants stemless, bulbous or aerial and branched >>> 2, shape and size of leaflets, presence or absence of hairs especially >>> along leaf margins, nature of tip of leaflets >>> 3. Number of leaflets in Averrhoa and Biophytum >>> 4. Colour of petals, especially throat if different in colour >>> 5. size of flowers >>> 6. Inflorescence (solitary flowers or umbellate clusters) >>> 7. Shape and size of fruit. >>> >>> *DR. SANTOSH KUMAR HAS KINDLY AGREED TO OVERSEE THE UPLOADS IN FAMILY >>> OXALIDACEAE. 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