Thanks, Lalithamba ji, for this difficult species. On 27 August 2016 at 16:43, Lalithamba Avadhanam <alalitha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Plant name: Phyllanthus lawii* J.Graham, *Cat. Pl. Bombay: 181. 1839.* > > *Ver.name:* Law’s goose berry (Eng.) > > *Family: * Phyllanthaceae > > *Description:* > > Shrubs, or small trees, 2-3 m tall. Bark smooth and brown. Foliar branches > 4-8 cm long, horizontal; short hooked spines are on either side of leafy > branchlets. Leaves alternate; lamina 3-5 × 2-2.5 mm, distichous, > overlapping, linear-oblong, rounded at the apex, often apiculate, base > rounded or subcordate, subsessile; nerves obscure; stipules 1.2 mm long, > purplish, lanceolate-subulate. Flowers white or pink, in axillary clusters > and drooping on the adaxial side. Pedicels 3-6mm long. Sepals of male and > female flowers 6; white, linear-oblong, obtuse in males; green with scaly > margin, triangular, acute in female flowers. Stamens 3, the filaments > united in a short column. Ovary 3 celled; styles 3, distinct, shortly and > bluntly 2-fid, recurved. Capsules 4 mm in diameter, on a very short > pedicel, globose, 6 angled, glabrous. Seeds 2-3 mm long, 3-gonous, rounded > on the back, foveolate (Seed pits conspicuous). > > *Habitat & location:* Found in hill side forests. Few plants are found at > S.R.Puram- Porumamilla ghat. > > As the images available with efi for Phyllanthus lawii and P.leischnaulti > are not clear I am adding a few. > > Thank you > > Regards > > A.Lalithamba > > -- > 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 email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://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> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). 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). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
