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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