Thank you Surajit ji for this detailed explanation..... I really wonder about your analytical skills (and patience) and wish I had even a fraction of it...
Satish ji had also indicated I. *coerulea* in his post above. Thanks and regards Alka Khare On Friday, June 20, 2014 8:35:08 AM UTC+5:30, surajitkoley wrote: > > Sir David Prain, in his 'Bengal Plants', divides *Indigofera tinctoria* L. > into two - > i) *leaflets hardly longer than broad*; racemes shorter than leaves = > *tinctoria* = "Chota Nagpur; Behar; rare, not cultivated in our area" > (Prain) > ii) leaflets longer than broad; racemes as long as leaves = *sumatrana* = > "cultivated, chiefly Tirhut; occasionally spontaneous in Tamarisk jungles > and on river banks... Bengal indigo" (Prain) > FoP informs *I. tinctoria* leaflets alternate - > http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=116399#KEY-1-7 > > To my understanding, we can rule out *tinctoria*. > > FoC infoms *I. suffruticosa* Mill. is 11 to 19 foliolate > <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200012176>. > In this set only one or two leaves have 11 leaflets; mostly 5 to 9. > > There is *Indigofera caerulea* - > http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=116399#KEY-1-22 > and > there is *Indigofera coerulea* Roxb. - > http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/ild-3769 > > Roxburgh's plant is in http://linnean-online.org/45121/ and in > http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=129885. > Decription can be found in FI (leaflets 3 to 5 pairs). > > I will select the Roxburgh's plant out of the above three > > Thanks n regards > > > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 6:10 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected] <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id assistance please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> Indigofera tinctoria to me, Fabaceae >> Please mention flowering time and habitat >> >> Is it cultivated ? - from Sourav ji. >> >> The plant was growing wild in the backyard of a house. This was clicked >> in May 2014... >> Regards >> Alka Khare >> this could be Indigofera coerulea .. >> regards >> Satish Pardeshi >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Alka Khare <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> Date: 29 May 2014 17:23 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:189398] Konkan, May 2014 :: Requesting ID of this >> shrub :: 29MAY2014 :: ARK-16 >> To: [email protected] <javascript:> >> >> >> Hello friends >> >> Requesting to please ID this shrub captured near Devgad, Maharashtra in >> May 2014. >> Is this some Indigofera species? >> >> Thanks and Regards >> Alka Khare >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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 >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >> world- around 2350 members & 1,90,000 messages on 31/5/14) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 9500 species & 1,90,000 images). Winner of >> Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> 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/d/optout.
