Thanks, Lalithamba ji, for adding a new species to efi, On 27 August 2016 at 18:48, Lalithamba Avadhanam <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Plant name: Decaschistia rufa* Craib, *Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1912: 35. > 1912. * > > *Family:* Malvaceae > > *Description:* > > Erect shrubs 0.5-1m tall; densely appressed with white or brown > stellate-tomentum. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-3cm long; 6-10 × 5-7cm, > ovate-cordaate, base sub-cordate, margin entire or shallowly serrate, > basally 5-nerved, thick. Flowers creamy yellow, 4-5 cm across, obliquely > ovate, solitary, axillary . Bracteoles 10, in 2 rows, acute, free. Sepals > acute 2-2.5cm long. Corolla creamy yellow, lobes 5, obovate, connate at > base with staminal column; inner base of petals, and staminal column > maroon. Stamens many, throughout the stamina tube. Ovary 10 loculed, 1ovule > in each locule, style divided at top into 10 branches, stigma capitate. > Capsule pubescent, depressed globose, 0.8-1.2cm across; seeds reniform, > sparsely pubescent, black. > > *Habitat & location:* Rare. Endemic to E.ghats. In hill side deciduous > forests Photographed at S.R.Puram- Porumaamilla ghat. > > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
