Thanks for sharing Gurcharan Sir, this is a common shrub of the roadside cliffs.. Thanks Tapas Ji for nomenclatural details..
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Respected Sir, >> I am putting here the correct nomenclature for this plant, extracted from >> Flora of India, Volume 23: >> >> *Leptopus cordifolius *Wall. ex Decne., Voy. Inde 4: 155. 1844; Voronts. >> & Petra Hoffm. in Kew Bull. 64: 633, f. 2 M. 2009 (publ. 2010). *Phyllanthus >> cordifolius* Wall. [Cat. No. 7913A. 1847, nom. nud.] ex Decne., l. c. >> 155. 1844, nom. invalid., pro syn. *Andrachne cordifolia* (Wall. ex >> Decne.) Müll.Arg. in DC., Prodr. 15(2): 234. 1866; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India >> 5: 283. 1887. *Arachne cordifolia *(Wall. ex Decne.) Pojark. in Bot. >> Zhurn. SSSR 25: 342. 1940, nom. invalid. *A. cordifolia* (Wall. ex >> Decne.) Hurus. in J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 6: 339. 1954. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> *Andrachne cordifolia* (Wall. ex Decne.) Muell. Avg. in DC., Prodr. >>> 15(2): 234. 1866 >>> >>> Small shrub with 2-5 cm long elliptic-ovate to triangular-ovate leaves >>> on up to 4 cm long petioles with minute stipules; male flowers in >>> few-flowered fascicles with 2.5-3 mm long sepals, rounded at apex, connate >>> at base, petals 2 mm long, obovate-spathulate, yellow; female flowers >>> solitary or with one male flower, pedicel 2-3 cm long, sepals enlarging to >>> 4 mm in fruit, petals minute; fruit roundly trilobate, 3-5 mm long, 6-7 mm >>> diam., smooth, glabrous. >>> Photographed from Mussoorie Chakrata Road. >>> >>> 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. >>> >> >> > -- > 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. > -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh Assistant Professor Department of Botany I.B. (PG) College Panipat-132103 Haryana Ph.: 09416371227 -- 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.
