Very good depiction Rawat ji.
-- 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 Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Dr. Badri Narayanan T < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Rawatji, > Thanks for the captioned and illustrative photographs. Very useful for a > layman. Hope there will be many more such lucid illustrations. > Regards, > Dr. Badri > Thank you all for liking and appreciating it. The image by Shrikant Ji > seems quite robust plant, here it is thin and slender. > DSRawat Pantnagar > > On Monday, August 26, 2013 2:03:04 PM UTC+5:30, D.S Rawat wrote: >> >> Bladdertworts or Utricularias are insectivorous plants; no matter how >> small are they. This *Utricularia striatula* Smith (Lentibulariaceae) is >> a tiny plant reaching to a height of only 3 cm. It grows along with mosses >> on moist rock faces with dripping water in shady conditions or on tree >> trunks. Basal part of the inflorescence axis produces few creeping >> branches-stolons, which bear small insect trapping devices evolved by this >> genus during evolution. These traps are named variously- urceoli, ampullae, >> vesiculae, utriculae, pitchers, bladders etc. The traps shown here are >> hardly 1-1.5 mm large with a mouth (orifice) encircled by many appendages >> (hair like structure). >> >> True leaves are absent in *Utricularia* and green photosynthetic organs >> are referred as foliar organs which are present at the base of >> inflorescence axis or on stolons here. >> >> In vegetative state *U.striatula* is very difficult to differentiate due >> to small size and only becomes noticeable when flowers appear on erect >> 2-3cm tall inflorescence axis. Flowers are comparatively larger being 7-10 >> mm including spur and colourful. >> >> This species is widespread in India and reaches to Tropical Africa to >> Malesia, China and Sri Lanka. >> >> 35 species of *Utricularia* are reported by M.K.Janarthanam and >> A.N.Henry in their fine document “*Bladderworts of India*” published by >> Botanical Survey of India in 1992. It was this document and help of these >> authors which enabled me to identify my specimens as *U.brachiata* Olive >> in 1999, a very rare Himalayan terrestrial bladderwort and was a new record >> to Western Himalaya. >> >> Photographs shot near Jeolikot on way to Naini Tal in August 2013. >> >> With so minute bladders and even smaller mouth how much small insect will >> it trap and digest? Whatever it may eat, it is happy and flourishing in its >> habitats. >> DSRawat Pantnagar >> > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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/ -- 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.
