Thank you and welcome. Kindly share more and more images of Euphorbiaceae and Phyllanthaceae. This species usually shows magnificent growth along river banks and on rocky river beds, sometimes forming dense thickets.
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 5:15 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
