I appreciate the way of your approach. On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:27 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you very much Sir, this is the most likely id of this strange > species. I face two problems though - > > - I couldn't find an open flower unlike other threads of this species > - Number of flowers in a whorl doesn't tally with lit. I have with me > or with info found in the net. There are as many as 6-8 flowers in each > distal whorl and 18 flowers in each proximal whorl > > It appears to me that this species is a combination of *S. scabra* and *S. > hispida* of Flora Indica! TPL thinks *S. scabra* is synonymous with *S. > articularis* L.f.; but this species neither tally with the description of > FoC nor with Flora Indica. > > Finally, even the paper, "Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Notes on the > Spermacoce hispida-articularis Complex and S. stricta-pusilla Complex > (Rubiaceae) / V. V. Sivarajan and R. Vasudevan Nair" doesn't help! > > Thank you > Regards > surajit koley > a *non-botanist* member of > efloraofIndia google group > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:42 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks, Mahadeswara ji. >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: M Swamy <[email protected]> >> Date: 3 June 2015 at 19:34 >> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:224940] Hooghly-skMAY23/24 Spermacoce hispida >> L.??? >> To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> >> >> >> For me the ID is correct. >> >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:42 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >>> >>> Some earlier relevant feedback: >>> >>> efi page on Spermacoce hispida >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/r/rubiaceae/spermacoce/spermacoce-hispida> >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: surajit koley <[email protected]> >>> Date: 27 May 2015 at 08:08 >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:224940] Hooghly-skMAY23/24 Spermacoce hispida >>> L.??? >>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> Yesterday I went to the place where I found what i thought to be *Leucas >>> aspera* (Willd.) Link. But the population was invisible there. Instead >>> i noticed a population of this herb, a bit stout, less than 1 ft height, >>> possibly on the onset of flowering season. Leaves are around 1.5 to 2 cm. >>> >>> Can it be *Spermacoce hispida* L. >>> <http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonimage/id110182/?taxonid=720609>? >>> >>> Thank you >>> Regards >>> surajit koley >>> a *non-botanist* member of >>> efloraofIndia google group >>> >>> -- >>> 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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