Good morning I was wrong last night. The picture, no. P1040439.jpg, in my earlier upload in another thread<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/yF8IhDueTFc>, *is of a female flower*, not a male. The female flower in that post shows relatively a large bract<https://indiantreepix.googlegroups.com/attach/1094ed65270bbb9c/P1040439.jpg?view=1&part=5>!!!
Thank you Regards, surajit On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:47 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > I think in my 2nd upload at, > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/yF8IhDueTFc, perhaps > there were two plants, one male and the other female growing side by side. > Only this line of thinking can explain the presence/absence of bracts on > flowers. > > Thank you, > Regards, > surajit > > > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:55 PM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> You may ask, "Why again!" >> Because - >> >> 1. to remove confusion, against *M. mixta* >> Roxb<http://images.kew.org/momordica_mixta_roxb/print/654453.html>. >> (*M. cochinchinensis* >> Spreng<http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-50043687> >> ) >> 2. bracts on female flowers absent in this plant found in another >> homeyard ( bract was present in female - >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/yF8IhDueTFc and >> in male - >> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/tmmOgn82pgg >> ) >> 3. no petiolar gland >> 4. leaves without lobes in all cases i've come across >> >> Perhaps >> FoC<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200022701>is >> correct when it says, "Female flower solitary; pedicels filiform, 5-10 >> cm; *usually with a minute bract* at base..." >> >> Thank you >> Regards >> >> >> > -- 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.
