Thanks for the information Gurcharan Sir and Satish Ji On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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