Thanks Satish Ji for this information...surely will help many..
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > We have covered 2 groups of flowers from Asteraceae family in May and > Jun2013. This July fortnight we will be covering plants with inflorescence > which has only Ligulate flowers in heads. I am copying some part of the > glossary from KEW which clearly describes the meaning of Ligulate which > will help in identifying which plants to post during the fortnight. > > *ligulate * - in *Compositae * it refers to either a floret type or > capitulum type where the corollas are modified into a flat, strap-shaped > limb with 5 apical teeth, often with a short or absent corolla tube at the > base. Such florets may be hermaphrodite or female. Typically in the tribe > *Lactuceae * all florets are identical and ligulate, just different in > size and maturity across the capitulum, also present in *Catamixis *(tribe > *Mutisieae)*. > > *ligule * - in *Compositae * it is used with reference to the flat, > strap-shaped limb, with 5 apical teeth, of the corolla in a ligulate > capitulum, e.g. members of the tribe Lactuceae. > > *limb * - the extended portion of a corolla such as that found in a ray > florets, but also applied to the portion of the corolla above an often > obvious corolla tube. > Dr Satish Phadke > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh Assistant Professor Department of Botany I.B. (PG) College Panipat-132103 Haryana Ph.: 09416371227 -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
