Dear Dinesh Your photographs are excellent. The views of the water fall are fantastic and breath-taking. I think the plant seen in your photograph is *Acalypha ciliata* Forssk. (Gujarati names:* Dadra*, *Runchalo-dadri*; Punjabi name: *Kokali*, *Kuppi*). The local names are not dependable as the same name is often used for several species of the genus. The reason why I came to this species is because the female bracts in this species is leafy, folded, campanulate with fringed or fimbriate as several long finger-like lobes at the rim. Whereas in *A. indica* L. the female bracts are cup-shaped, denticulate into teeth along margins (*not fringed or fimbriate* as in *A. ciliata*). However, a final confirmation can be made only by studying the morphology of flowers in detail. Please refer to the genus *Acalypha* in *Flora of India, vol. 23:* pages 90 - 105. 2012.
On 5 October 2013 18:03, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > > efi page on Acalypha > indica<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/e/euphorbiaceae/acalypha/acalypha-indica> > > > Species & keys are available at efi page at > Acalypha<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/e/euphorbiaceae/acalypha> > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > Date: 30 September 2013 13:42 > Subject: [efloraofindia:166625] Acalypha ¿ indica ? at Bhedaghat :: 17 SEP > 13 :: DV > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > > [image: Bhedaghat :: Dhuandhar > Falls]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F10014984284%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzebsRqvSP7zkS6PYD0JfSThW4Tmsw> > Bhedaghat ... about 1348 feet ft asl > *Date / Time*: 17 SEP 13 at 10:13 AM ... *Altitude*: about 1230 ft asl > ------------------------------ > *Acalypha* ¿ *indica* ? ... (family: Euphorbiaceae) > Dear friends, hopefully this plant is *A. indica*. Please validate. > Are any other species of *Acalypha*, say *A. lanceolata* confusingly > close to *A. indica* ? > [image: Acalypha ¿ indica > ?]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F9900761516%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzfh_ucDHyLE8LpaeUG974WIbJT9Ow> > > > [image: Acalypha ¿ indica > ?]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F9900790404%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzfdetBcWh_S-OeIyL8trjS60ikI4w> > ... this plant was found in the parking lot of ropeway station at > Bhedaghat. The ropeway offers splendid viewing of roaring waterfalls, > gorging the marble rocks - as it plunges into river Narmada. The large > column of misty spray looks like cascading smoke rather than waterfall, > thus lending the name Dhuandhar Falls (धूआंधार). Here are two pictures > showing the views ... > [image: Dhuandhar Falls on river > Narmada]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F9900635555%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdYfgl2_BBPST8H54e0iac8WOtQGg> > > > [image: Dhuandhar Falls on river > Narmada]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F9900712126%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeNUOyY3qRMtuSN6Y8bQ-DNvWiv-A> > Regards. > Dinesh > > -- > 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. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world): > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2165 members & > 1,64,000 messages on 31/8/13) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 8500 species & 1,70, 000 images). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- 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.
