Dear Viplav, thanks for posting this.
About 50 kms north of Madh in the hills I've seen both forms of this tree. At a guess there are probably 60% of trees whose flowers have anthers exserted and 40% with anthers included in the tube. All are growing very close to each other. I can't see any other differences between the 2 types of tree. Brandis in his book Indian Trees refers to it by the old name Morinda tinctoria, Roxb. He says: "anthers exserted or included" Talbot says the same: "Anthers exserted or included" in his Forest Flora of Bombay Presidency and Sind. regards Radha On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 10:41:48 AM UTC+5:30, Viplav Gangar wrote: > > > Sharing some photographs of the buds and the flowers of *Morinda coreia* > var. *tomentosa*. The flowers are usually 5-merous; have also attached > some instances of variable merosity in the flowers of this tree (4-merous & > 6-merous). The corolla tube is glabrous on the inside and hairy on the > outer surface as seen in the last picture. > > This tree is often referred to as *Morinda pubescens* Sm. The genus > *Morinda* in Mumbai was revised by RR Fernandez who published a new > combination - *Morinda coreia* Buch.-Ham. var. *tomentosa* (Hook.f.) > R.R.Fernandez. Have attached the key by Fernandez from his book 'Trees of > Mumbai (Bombay)', pp. 173-174, Scientific Publishers, 1999. > > In Cooke's Flora, the anthers are said to be included within the corolla > tube as depicted in Navendu ji's photographs on flowersofindia.net > <http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Mulberry.html>. > But the anthers are clearly exserted in the trees that I have come across > in Madh. In the eflora archives, I found some photographs of the flowers of > *M. > pubescens* bearing exserted stamens & anthers (posted by Mohina ji fr. > Alibag > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/indiantreepix/qtNY1MByXak> > & Dinesh ji fr. SGNP in Mumbai > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topicsearchin/indiantreepix/Morinda$20AND$20pubescens$20AND$20Sm./indiantreepix/mOj5Q4dogw8>). > > The flower image of *M. pubescens* in 'The Trees of Mumbai' by M. Almeida > & N. Chaturvedi (p. 20) as well as in Shrikant ji's 'Trees of Pune' (p. 98) > also depicts exserted anthers. Would appreciate any information / comments > on this. > > Am sending the photographs of the leaves, fruit, and bark in separate > emails. > > Photographed on Madh Hill (North Mumbai) in March 2015. > > Best wishes, Viplav > -- 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
