Dear All, The plant is ** *Mukia maderaspatana (L.) M.Roem. [family CUCURBITACEAE]* Synonymy:
- ≡ Bryonia scabrella L.f. [family CUCURBITACEAE] - ≡ Mukia scabrella (L.) Arn. [family CUCURBITACEAE] - = Cucumis maderaspatanus L. [family CUCURBITACEAE] - = Melothria maderaspatana (L.) Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE] Climber or trailer to 2.5 m. from perennial woody rootstock; stems roughly bristly-hairy. Leaf-blade sagittate, hastate, triangular, ovate or broadly ovate in outline, often cordate, sinuate-toothed and sometimes irregularly dentate-lobulate, scabrid-hairy, 12–113 mm. long, 14–110 mm. broad, unlobed or 3(–5)-lobed; middle lobe triangular, broadest below, or sometimes slightly narrowed towards the base, and much the largest; lateral lobes ovate-triangular; petiole rough-hairy, 3–82 mm. long. Male flowers on 1–3 mm. long pedicels; receptacle-tube 1–2 mm. long, dark-hairy; lobes triangular-subulate, 0.5–1 mm. long; petals yellow, 1.5–2 mm. long, 1–1.3 mm. broad. Female flowers 5–10 in separate clusters on 1 mm. long pedicels; ovary green, globose, shortly beaked, bristly with dark forward-pointing hairs, 1.5–3 mm. long, 1.2–2.5 mm. across; receptacle-tube 1 mm. long; lobes triangular, 0.5–0.8 mm. long; petals 1 mm. long and broad. Fruits subsessile in axillary clusters of 1–7, bright scarlet and glabrous, smooth, subglobose, 6–11 mm. in diameter. Seeds ovate in outline, bordered, scrobiculate, 4–5.5 2–3 1.2–1.7 mm. Fig. 19, p. 116. Regards Tanay On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:50 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise pl. > Earlier relevant feedback: > *“This is a Cucurbitaceae member.* Forgot its name now????? > Santhosh” > > “Whether it is cucumis?” from Vijayadas ji. > > *“this seems to be Mukia madaraspatna of Cucurbitaceae. *when mature > fruits become red in colour > kunhikannan” > > "Kunhikannan ji, the concern is that the fruit as well as the flowers in > this case, are approximately half the size of M. maderaspatana (syn. of > Cucumis maderaspatanus). > *Assuming some kind of stunted growth, it does look like M. maderaspatana. > * > Friends, please comment." > > "To me the fruits appear young and not fully developed, so size should not > be the concern. > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh" > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > Date: 11 December 2009 21:00 > Subject: [indiantreepix:24896] Convolvulaceae fruit lesser than pea-size > To: Indian Tree Pix <[email protected]> > > > Dear friends, > > Creeper with large leaves, minute yellow flowers - just about 2 - 3 mm; > round fruits about 5 mm. > > Place: near Panorama Point, Matheran > Date: 08 DEC 09 > > ID please. > > Regards, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "indiantreepix" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, > Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Efloraofindia: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile) 9674221362 (Mobile) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
