Identity is confirmed Garg ji Trichosanthes costata Bl. (syn: Gymnopetalum chinense (Lour.) Merr.)
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 Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:18 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > Finally got it identified as Gymnopetalum chinense (Lour.) > Merr. by Anant Kumar on Facebook > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > > > Latest name according to Renner and Pandey (2013) is Trichosanthes > costata Bl. > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > > > Sir to me it looks any sp of Herpetospermum. I may be wrong > Dr Balkar Singh > Herpetospermum has yellow flowers and much different fruits > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Herpetospermum/ > indiantreepix/UnTE5xCKDC8/mxXqjgE25mQJ > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > > > Yes Sir 2 days before only I saw Herpatospermum in Shimla flowers were > yellow, but as i remember fruit was almost same. At that time camera was > not in working mode so could not take any photo > Thanks > > -- > Regards > Dr Balkar Singh > > > See this one in Nidhan ji's upload > https://08511630493324166816.googlegroups.com/attach/64e636018eea159b/H. > pedunculosum+Fruit+%282%29.JPG?part=5&view=1&vt= > ANaJVrH0JsdJYkfcaBFPK94LTf-VwmqdasOwfk4mceh0_SmE_ENsvgKkSXtGC_ > bRUTN1nqjmjKBo7wThYO5WkYLFqGv8q0cZSCkTOcUpaWEIY-nlNUN3Fpo > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > > > Gurcharan Sir please have a look on this link. This might help u in > reaching any conclusion. > http://api.ning.com/files/VK6afwVpRnZ5cZg0xutPSho3ONKpj7 > HsxWuWCBfI7aP0tf2WIMOz4a-sKx7VY8hyW5QG1miVCyMc0mqK5daVW > *RxQemc5sYg/7.GYMNOPETALUMARN.ANDGYNOSTEMMABLUMECUCURBITACEA > ETWOGENERICRECORDSFORODISHAByK.K.MANDAL1T.KAR1N.C.ROUT2ANDA.K.BISWAL1.pdf > Regards > Prasad > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > Date: 17 October 2013 09:10 > Subject: [efloraofindia:170529] 17102013GS1 a cucurbit for ID from Jim > Corbett > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > This cucurbit was growing wild along fences in Jim Corbett area. Young > fruits remind of Luffa amara being softly echinate along angles (perhaps 8, > but white flowers) and red fleshy fruit barely 3 cm long remininding > Trichsanthes tricuspidata (but lacking fringed petal margins). Kindly help > in ID > > > 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. > > > > -- > 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 2190 members & > 1,72,300 messages on 31/10/13) 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.

