Dear Gurcharan ji, I too think it is P. amarus only. The following reference will be of much useful in identifying phyllanthus species.
Chaudhary, L.B. & R.R. Rao. 2002. Taxonomic study of herbaceous species of Phyllanthus L. (Euphorbiaceae) in India. Phytotaxonomy 2: 143-162. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Dr Santhosh Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Sir, > > This is Phyllanthus amarus > > Santhosh > > 2009/12/9 Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > >> >> Let me first thank Vijayasankar ji for uploading excellent poster. I am >> happy that my doubts were not unfounded. I had earlier ignored the late >> flowering form with smaller leaves growing at the same small lawn where P. >> fraternus (I will check next summer to know whether that is P. fraternus or >> not) with larger leaves grows in May June. This late flowering form is still >> growing. I examined it today again and found leaves resembling P. amarus. >> Both male and female flowers have five tepals, characteristic of P. amarus. >> The only feature (often mentioned in floras) which does not match is that >> lower axils have female flowers and upper male flowers, whereas in P. amarus >> two should occur together. I am uploading the photographs. Vijayasankar ji >> to kindly give your judgement on identity. >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "indiantreepix" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > SANTHOSH > ------------------------------------------ > Dr. E.S. Santhosh Kumar > Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode > Thiruvananthapuram-695562 > Kerala > India > www.drsanthosh.wetpaint.com > > -- With regards R. Vijayasankar FRLHT, Bangalore -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
