Thank you very much sir, I too had the doubt about the hair at the hilum. If only there was a definitive key that bore absolutely no ambiguity.
I will take this as Abutilon indicum. On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:59 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > One my request, concerning *Abutilon* in another thread > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/TRSEpDxNHCA/7XzMvXm-4B4J>, > has not been addressed yet, leave aside met, yet I have received this mail, > perhaps to express my view on it, view of a minnow, Huh! > > I agree with Dinesh Ji's view. I do not think it is or the one in > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/wzOrPt8dSyA/1h3CqyUe0xUJ is > *Abutilon > pannosum*. > > I also do not think this is *Abutilon hirtum*. > > Except the hairs at hilum, which I fail to explain for want of literature, > I think it is probably *Abutilon indicum* G. Don, where number of carpels > can be 20 or more > <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/731298#page/224/mode/1up>. Yes, I > read that FoP records, in *A. hirtum*, seed with minute shinning stellate > hairs, more so at hilum. At the same time FoC records seeds in *A. > indicum* are sparsely stellate. > > Thank you > Regards > surajit > > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 5:57 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> Anurag, this will not be A. pannosum, and not A.hirtum too. >> The links you provided yesterday were helpful to know about pannosum & >> hirtum. >> Putting them here for quick reference: >> *Abutilon hirtum*: herbarium >> <http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/herb/Abutilon%20hirtum/P1010874.JPG> >> | description >> <http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/pdf/Abutilon%20hirtum/245.pdf.jpg> >> | picture >> <http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/field/Abutilon%20hirtum/Picture%20076.jpg> >> *Abutilon pannosum*: herbarium >> <http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/herb/Abutilon%20pannosum/P1010873.JPG> >> | description >> <http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/pdf/Abutilon%20pannosum/246.pdf.jpg> >> To me your posted plant is *A. indicum*. >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> The number of mericarps (25+) and their acute tips, and emarginate >> petals are pointing to *Abutilon hirtum*. The indumentum is supposed to >> have viscid hairs, please check. >> Vijay >> Thank you sir. >> Here is a close up of the stem. Would you say there are viscid hair or >> only dense simple hair? >> Anurag N. Sharma >> Thanks Anurag, it looks like viscid but I cannot tell for sure from the >> picture. When viscid glandular hairs present, it will be 'sticky' to touch. >> Vijay >> It was clicked a long time back and the stem close up is something I >> failed to click at the time! >> If not A. hirtum, what else could it be sir? >> >> Thank you. >> Anurag N. Sharma >> >> nice pictures esp number 8 >> that makes it seem that it may have been sticky... >> like some fruits of some basil do and some plectranthus do... that slight >> dewy smallest "droplets" and they will also collect dirt.. >> >> usha di >> >> Most likely Abutilon indicum.- from Chauhan ji >> >> efi pages on Abutilon indicum >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/malvaceae/abutilon/abutilon-indicum> >> & >> Abutilon hirtum >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/malvaceae/abutilon/abutilon-hirtum> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> >> Date: 27 February 2015 at 00:16 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:216971] ANFEB39 Abutilon pannosum (please >> validate) >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Family: Malvaceae >> Date: November 2014 >> Place: Bangalore Rural >> Reference: >> http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/img/pdf/Abutilon%20pannosum/246.pdf.jpg >> >> -- >> 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). 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