---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shrikant Ingalhalikar <[email protected]> Date: 25 January 2014 15:30 Subject: Re: Fwd: ¿ Dendrophthoe curvata ? To: "J. M. Garg" <[email protected]>
Dineshji, this is old D. falcata var coccinea which is now syn'd with D falcata. Earlier D falcata with greenish flowers was var falcata. There are no var now. Regards On 25 Jan 2014 03:54, "JM Garg" <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id assistance please. > > > On Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:58:51 PM UTC+5:30, Dinesh Valke wrote: > >> Hello friends, >> >> Attached here are 2 photos of Loranthaceae member, presumably *Dendrophthoe >> curvata*. >> Found on Chiplun - Karad road on 21 DEC 08 >> Most of the Loranthaceae members that I have in available resources seem >> to flower-fruit around middle of the year, except for *D. falcata*during the >> start / end of the year. >> >> Some of the important sites put *D. falcata* as a synonym of *D. curvata* >> . >> However there are some interesting facts about how these are separate >> species >> -- put at The Parasitic Plant Connection >> http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/NewGuineaLoranths/ >> Dendrophthoe/Dcurvata.html >> >> Ruling out *D. falcata* for two reasons, in favour of *D. curvata*: >> - most of the resources point out that *D. falcata*, has midrib of its >> leaves - usually and noticeably, red in colour >> - the prominent rounded lenticels; *D. falcata* often has glabrous stems >> / branches, or are finely lenticillated >> >> One of the concerns is that there is nothing found about distribution of *D. >> curvata* in India (perhaps because of it being considered synonymous to *D. >> falcata*) >> ... please validate. >> >> > -- 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 2200 members & 1,78,400 messages on 31/12/13) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 9000 species & 1,80, 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.
