Madam, Now I am confused, I have identified my species (at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/4juCgPJGMN8) as *Cuscuta campestris*, based on Flora of China KEY - (i) capsule entirely enclosed by withered corolla = *chinensis* (ii) capsule subtended by withered corolla = *campestris*
Thank you Regards surajit On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Chitralekha P <p_chitrale...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > You are right Surajit. It does appear to be C. chinensis which probably > has not been reported from Delhi. > Thanks. > Regards, > Chitralekha > > > On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 11:54 PM, surajitkoley < > surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Madam, > > I Haven't received your mail yesterday, instead replying in the group site > directly. This is getting complicated. Please check my thread, I have > uploaded a little while ago - > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/4juCgPJGMN8/YHpA9ZMONDEJ. > > I think your species look similar to mine. > > Your species doesn't look like *C. hyalina*, for flowers should have > acuminate to caudate petals and acute to acuminate sepals. Please check- > http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=130459 > http://www.ispotnature.org/node/535679 > > Picture of seeds of *hyalina* can be found at - > http://itp.lucidcentral.org/id/fnw/key/FNW_Seeds/Media/Html/fact_sheets/Cuscuta.htm > > Thank you > Regards > surajit > > > > On Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:18:26 UTC+5:30, P. Chitralekha wrote: > > Thank you Surajit. In Flora of Delhi ((1963) only two species of *Cuscuta* > are reported to be growing in Delhi, *C. reflexa* and *C. hyaline*. I > tried FoP but could not conclusively identify the species. > regards, > Chitralekha > > > On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 8:21:08 PM UTC+5:30, P. Chitralekha wrote: > > Kindly identify the species of Cuscuta growing in Delhi. I suspect there > are two species of Cuscuta here, the one with orange-brown thinner stem is > flowering and the other with yellow-green thicker stem (C. reflexa?) is not > flowering. > Thank you, > With best regards, > Chitralekha > > > > -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
