Sawmliana Ji, Before I reply your other thread <https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/e5eE6YgOC_c> I would like to explain it first, one more time - This plant is *Alocasia* because 1) leaves are glossy (though *Colocasia antiquorum* has also glossy leaf, as per FoC <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=107697#KEY-1-4>) 2) berries, though I haven't seen any, of *Colocasia* are obconic or oblong, greenish to dull orange and 3) even FoC doesn't know how the berry of *C. antiquorum* <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027261> looks like!
This is *Alocasia* - but which species? Bengal Plants provides KEY I have sent you in my earlier mail to another thread - (i) basal lobes of leaves connate for one-third to one-fourth = *fornicata* (ii) basal lobes connate for three-fourth (please also check FoC <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=250095401> for their view), leaves elongate-rhomboid, caudate-acuminate = a*cuminata* As per Bengal Plants we do not have *A. acuminata* here. I think I have *A. fornicata* pictures and I have uploaded those a number of times. The connate part of *A. fornicata* is very variable as noted by Haines. And I have seen young leaves just like this one. So, I have suggested this plant to be *Alocasia fornicata*. But, it may also be *A. acuminata* http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/detailsQuery.do?barcode=K000675785 instead! My view is - please check an entire population, for variation in leaves (connate part. lamina shape, leaf apex), number of inflorescence to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Thank you Regards On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:36 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > May be young leaf of *Alocasia fornicata* Schott. Attached here a few > photographs, for comparison. > > Thank you > > Regards > > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:32 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id assistance please. >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: M Sawmliana <[email protected]> >> Date: 8 August 2014 20:08 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:196064] Araceae for ID >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Location : Mizoram >> Date : 12-10-2012 >> Habit : Herb >> Habitat : Wild >> >> >> Regards, >> M.Sawmliana >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 2380 members & 1,96,000 messages on 31/7/14) 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.
