Thanks Gurcharan ji for your efforts to establish correct id of this long-pending query. I agree with your id, too.
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Santhosh ji. Good that I reinvestigated this. > > > -- > 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, May 6, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Dr Santhosh Kumar < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Cucumis dipsaceus is the correct identity. >> >> >> On 4 May 2013 17:58, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This plant was uploaded by shivaprakash adavanne on 20-12-2009 in a >>> mixed thread >>> >>> >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Cucumis$20anguria/indiantreepix/Lz5x77g3hUs/Jzh_SfCeYrYJ >>> >>> The identification was suggested as Momordica dioica (with which it does >>> not resemble in leaves and very slender spines) by Rakesh ji, doubted by >>> Dinesh ji on basis of flower size, and finally identified by Vijayasankar >>> ji as C. anguria var. longaculeatus. >>> I had closer look at these photographs and the length and thickness >>> of spines on fruit, and found that C. anguria leaves are deeply lobed, >>> spines not that delicate. >>> >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Cucumis$20anguria/indiantreepix/nkYL7VBOwBg/EVMH8ZI9COIJ >>> >>> >>> I am more or less convinced that this plant may be Cucumis >>> dipsaceus, the real teasel gourd (although the name also applies sometimes >>> to Momordica dioica or M. subangulata). >>> Please give your opinion. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 Monday, February 1, 2010 7:22:05 PM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >>> >>>> Resurfacing again for ID >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>>> 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://people.du.ac.in/~**singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: shivaprakash adavanne <[email protected]> >>>> Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM >>>> Subject: [indiantreepix:25286] requesting id >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> hello, >>>> pl find attached few photos of cucurbitacea familiy; this creeper is >>>> found in almost all the places bordering agricultural fields/ debris >>>> dumping ground/ waste land and so on, in Mysore district. >>>> >>>> regards >>>> a.shivaprakash >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> indiantreepix+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >>>> group/indiantreepix?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en> >>>> . >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>>> 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://people.du.ac.in/~**singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> SANTHOSH >> ------------------------------------------ >> Dr. E.S. Santhosh Kumar MSc, PhD, FIAT, FLS (on leave for 2 years) >> Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode >> Thiruvananthapuram-695562 >> Kerala >> India >> www.drsanthosh.wetpaint.com >> >> Presently working for the British Aerospace, Riyadh, KSA >> NB: Please consider your environmental responsibility! Ask yourself >> before printing this email !!! >> > > > > -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
