Thank you very much Garg ji for resurfacing this post for validating the ID. Regards. Dinesh
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you very very much Nambiyath ji for validating the ID. Thank you > very much for elaborating the differences among the species. I would go > ahead to label this photos in my flickr photostream with tentative ID as > *Acalypha > ciliata* Forssk. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Nambiyath Balakrishnan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. 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